diff --git a/net-snmp.spec b/net-snmp.spec
index e18483e..392bb32 100644
--- a/net-snmp.spec
+++ b/net-snmp.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # use netsnmp_tcp_wrappers 0 to disable tcp_wrappers support
-%{!?netsnmp_tcp_wrappers:%define netsnmp_tcp_wrappers 1}
+%{!?netsnmp_tcp_wrappers:%global netsnmp_tcp_wrappers 1}
 # use nestnmp_check 0 to speed up packaging by disabling 'make test'
-%{!?netsnmp_check: %define netsnmp_check 1}
+%{!?netsnmp_check: %global netsnmp_check 1}
 
 # Arches on which we need to prevent arch conflicts on net-snmp-config.h
 %define multilib_arches %{ix86} ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x x86_64 sparc sparcv9 sparc64
 # allow compilation on old Fedoras
-%{!?python_sitearch: %define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
+%{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
 
 Summary: A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
 Name: net-snmp