diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d0c8cb6..b4b6f99 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ include/mdbver.h
 libmdb.pc
 libmdbsql.pc
 libtool
-mdbtools.spec
 types.h
 src/extras/mdb-hexdump
 src/odbc/unittest
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dc63353..d90aa04 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ src/sql/Makefile
 src/odbc/Makefile
 src/fuzz/Makefile
 doc/Makefile
-mdbtools.spec
 include/mdbver.h])
 AC_OUTPUT
 dnl doc/reference/libmdb/Makefile])
diff --git a/mdbtools.spec.in b/mdbtools.spec.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e91dce..0000000
--- a/mdbtools.spec.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-%define	name	@PACKAGE@
-%define	version	@VERSION@
- 
-Name: %{name} 
-Version: %{version} 
-Release: 1 
-Vendor: github.com/mdbtools
-License: LGPL/GPL
-Group: System Environment/Libraries 
-Source: https://github.com/mdbtools/%{name}/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-buildroot 
-Summary: MDB Tools is a suite of libraries and program for accessing data stored in Microsoft Access databases.
- 
-%description 
-mdb-dump   -- simple hex dump utility for looking at mdb files
-mdb-schema -- prints DDL for the specified table
-mdb-export -- export table to CSV format
-mdb-tables -- a simple dump of table names to be used with shell scripts
-mdb-header -- generates a C header to be used in exporting mdb data to a C prog
-mdb-parsecvs -- generates a C program given a CSV file made with mdb-export
-mdb-sql -- demo SQL engine program
-mdb-ver -- print version of database
- 
-%package devel 
-Group: Development/Libraries 
-Summary: Include files needed for development with MDB Tools
-Requires: mdbtools = %{version}
-
-%package odbc
-Group: System Environment/Libraries
-Summary: MDB Tools ODBC driver for unixODBC
-Requires: mdbtools = %{version}, unixODBC >= 2.0.0
-
-%description devel
-The mdbtools-devel package contains the files necessary for development with with the MDB Tools libraries. 
-
-%description odbc
-The mdbtools-odbc package contains ODBC driver build for unixODBC.
-
-%prep
-%setup 
- 
-%build 
-%configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local 
-make RPM_OPT_FLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
- 
-%install 
-rm -rf "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"
-make DESTDIR="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" install
-gunzip -c doc/install.tgz | tar x
-
-%post 
-/sbin/ldconfig 
- 
-%clean 
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT 
- 
-%files 
-%defattr(-,root,root) 
-%doc AUTHORS BUGS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README TODO HACKING
-%{_libdir}/libmdb.a
-%{_libdir}/libmdb.la
-%{_libdir}/libmdb.so*
-%{_libdir}/libmdbsql.a
-%{_libdir}/libmdbsql.la
-%{_libdir}/libmdbsql.so*
-%{_bindir}/mdb-schema
-%{_bindir}/mdb-export
-%{_bindir}/mdb-tables
-%{_bindir}/mdb-header
-%{_bindir}/mdb-parsecsv
-%{_bindir}/mdb-dump
-%{_bindir}/mdb-sql
-%{_bindir}/mdb-ver
-%{_bindir}/mdb-array
-%{_mandir}/man1/*
- 
-%files devel 
-%defattr (-,root,root) 
-%{_includedir}/mdbtools.h
-%{_includedir}/mdbsql.h
-
-%files odbc
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%{_libdir}/libmdbodbc.la
-%{_libdir}/libmdbodbc.a
-%{_libdir}/libmdbodbc.so*
-
-%changelog 
-* Sat Jan 11 2003 Brian Bruns <camber@ais.org> 
-- Modifications for 0.5 ver and making .in version