just get this old beast building

c-ares.spec

@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ compile applications or shared objects that use c-ares.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p1 -b .optflags
+#%patch0 -p1 -b .optflags
 #%patch1 -p1 -b .multilib
 
 cp %{SOURCE1} .
 f=CHANGES ; iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 $f -o $f.utf8 ; mv $f.utf8 $f
 
 %build
-autoreconf -if
+# autoreconf -if
 %configure --enable-shared --disable-static \
            --disable-dependency-tracking
 %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}