diff --git a/wxGTK3.spec b/wxGTK3.spec
index e07ec85..bc57eb2 100644
--- a/wxGTK3.spec
+++ b/wxGTK3.spec
@@ -253,9 +253,6 @@ sed -i -e 's|wxmsw.mo|wxmsw3.mo|' Makefile.in
 sed -i -e 's|/usr/lib\b|%{_libdir}|' wx-config.in configure
 sed -i -e 's|/lib|/%{_lib}|' src/unix/stdpaths.cpp
 
-# Trick configure into using pkg-config for cppunit-config
-sed -i -e 's|$CPPUNIT_CONFIG --version|$CPPUNIT_CONFIG --modversion|' configure
-
 
 %build
 # likely still dereferences type-punned pointers
@@ -263,8 +260,6 @@ CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing"
 CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing"
 # fix unused-direct-shlib-dependency error:
 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"
-# Trick configure into using pkg-config for cppunit-config
-export CPPUNIT_CONFIG="/usr/bin/pkg-config cppunit"
 
 %if 0%{?usesnapshot}
 #For snapshots, mo files need to be generated
@@ -462,6 +457,7 @@ fi
 * Wed Nov 21 2018 Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 3.0.4-5
 - Remove Group tags
 - Remove xmldocs subpackage (never used)
+- Remove cppunit workaround (no longer needed)
 
 * Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.0.4-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild