diff --git a/apache-commons-codec.spec b/apache-commons-codec.spec
index 70adc2a..7476cdf 100644
--- a/apache-commons-codec.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-codec.spec
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Phonetic and URLs.
 %{?javadoc_package}
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n commons-codec-%{version}-src
+%autosetup -p1 -n commons-codec-%{version}-src
 cp %{SOURCE1} aspell-mail.txt
 sed -i 's/\r//' RELEASE-NOTES*.txt LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt