diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index 02150ae..506e76f 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@
 # '_ZZNSt8__detail18__to_chars_10_implIjEEvPcjT_E8__digits@@LLVM_11'
 %global _lto_cflags %{nil}
 
+# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Broken_RPATH_will_fail_rpmbuild
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902729
+# ERROR   0008: file '/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/vtk/libvtkFiltersParallelGeometryJava.so'
+# ERROR   0008: file '/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/vtk/libvtkFiltersParallelGeometryJava.so'
+# ERROR   0008: file '/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/vtk/libvtkParallelMPIJava.so'
+# ERROR   0008: file '/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/vtk/libvtkParallelMPIJava.so'
+#  contains the $ORIGIN runpath specifier at the wrong position in [/usr/lib64/mpich/lib:$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/../]
+# TODO fix or investigate
+%global __brp_check_rpaths %{nil}
+
+
 # OSMesa and X support are mutually exclusive.
 # TODO - buid separate OSMesa version if desired
 %bcond_with OSMesa