diff --git a/mingw-libxml2.spec b/mingw-libxml2.spec
index 927cd5c..e6edb82 100644
--- a/mingw-libxml2.spec
+++ b/mingw-libxml2.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name:           mingw-libxml2
 Version:        2.7.8
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Release:        6%{?dist}
 Summary:        MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ make -C build_shared DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
 make -C build_static DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/build_static install
 mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/build_static%{mingw32_libdir}/*.a $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_libdir}
 
-# Manually merge the libtool files
-sed -i s/"old_library=''"/"old_library='libxml2.a'"/ $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_libdir}/libxml2.la
-
 # Drop the folder which was temporary used for installing the static bits
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/build_static
 
@@ -104,6 +101,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_mandir}
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_docdir}
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_datadir}/gtk-doc/
 
+# Drop all .la files
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name "*.la" -delete
+
 
 %files -n mingw32-libxml2
 %{mingw32_bindir}/libxml2-2.dll
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_datadir}/gtk-doc/
 %{mingw32_bindir}/xmlcatalog.exe
 %{mingw32_bindir}/xmllint.exe
 %{mingw32_libdir}/libxml2.dll.a
-%{mingw32_libdir}/libxml2.la
 %{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
 %{mingw32_libdir}/xml2Conf.sh
 %{mingw32_includedir}/libxml2
@@ -123,6 +122,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{mingw32_datadir}/gtk-doc/
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Mar 09 2012 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.8-6
+- Dropped .la files
+
 * Tue Mar 06 2012 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 2.7.8-5
 - Renamed the source package to mingw-libxml2 (#800440)
 - Modernize the spec file