diff --git a/xfsprogs.spec b/xfsprogs.spec
index 84740af..fe8acf3 100644
--- a/xfsprogs.spec
+++ b/xfsprogs.spec
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ in building or running the xfstests QA suite.
 %setup -q
 
 %build
-export tagname=CC
+export tagname=CC DEBUG=-DNDEBUG
 %configure \
         --enable-readline=yes	\
 	--enable-blkid=yes
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
 * Thu Nov 18 2010 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 3.1.4-1
-- New upstream release
+- New upstream release; disable DEBUG for now to build
 
 * Sat Aug 28 2010 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 3.1.3-1
 - New upstream release