diff --git a/SPECS/flite.spec b/SPECS/flite.spec
index 4562c37..fe2c082 100644
--- a/SPECS/flite.spec
+++ b/SPECS/flite.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           flite
 Version:        1.3
-Release:        39%{?dist}
+Release:        40%{?dist}
 Summary:        Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech)
 License:        MIT
 URL:            http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ cp -p %{SOURCE1} .
 autoreconf -vif
 %configure --enable-shared --with-audio=alsa
 # This package fails parallel make (thus cannot be built using "_smp_flags")
-make
+make \
+  CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wl,-z,now"
 # Build documentation
 cd doc
 # WARNING "make doc" provides a huge PDF file. It was decided not to produce/package it.
@@ -81,6 +82,9 @@ make install INSTALLBINDIR=%{buildroot}%{_bindir} INSTALLLIBDIR=%{buildroot}%{_l
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 26 2022 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 1.3-40
+- Link with -Wl,-z,now. Related: rhbz#2044860
+
 * Mon Aug 09 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 1.3-39
 - Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
   Related: rhbz#1991688