diff --git a/signon.spec b/signon.spec
index 17ed6f3..15cd5e5 100644
--- a/signon.spec
+++ b/signon.spec
@@ -56,18 +56,16 @@ sed -i "s/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp-qt5/" src/signond/signond.pro
 
 export PATH=%{_qt5_bindir}:$PATH
 
-mkdir %{_target_platform}
-pushd %{_target_platform}
-%{qmake_qt5} ../signon.pro \
+# FIXME: out-of-src tree build fails -- rex
+%{qmake_qt5} signon.pro \
   CONFIG+=release \
   QMF_INSTALL_ROOT=%{_prefix}
-popd
 
-make %{?_smp_mflags} -C %{_target_platform}
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 
 %install
-make install INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot} -C %{_target_platform}
+make install INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot}
 
 # create/own libdir/extensions
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/extensions/
@@ -114,7 +112,6 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/extensions/
 
 %changelog
 * Wed Apr 01 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 8.57-3
-- out-of-src build
 - %%files: track closer, less globs (sonames, pkgconfig)
 - own libdir/extensions/
 - patch out building of (unused) static lib