diff --git a/festival.spec b/festival.spec
index d2a6d34..8e580c9 100644
--- a/festival.spec
+++ b/festival.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 %define majver %(echo %version | cut -d. -f1-2)
 Name:          festival
 Version:       2.5.0
-Release:       1mamba
+Release:       2mamba
 Summary:       A general framework for building speech synthesis systems
 Group:         System/Multimedia
 Vendor:        openmamba
 Distribution:  openmamba
 Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
-URL:           http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
+URL:           https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
 Source:        http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/%{majver}/festival-%{version}-release.tar.gz
 Source1:       http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/%{majver}/speech_tools-%{version}-release.tar.gz
 Source2:       http://festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festlex_CMU.tar.gz
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Source14:      http://festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_cstr_us_jmk_arc
 Source15:      http://festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_us1.tar.gz
 Source16:      http://festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_us2.tar.gz
 Source17:      http://festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_us3.tar.gz
-#Source18:      http://www2.pd.istc.cnr.it/FESTIVAL/ogi/OGIresLPC-2.2.tar.gz
 Patch0:        festival-1.96-enable_esd_audio.patch
 Patch3:        festival-1.96-etcsiteinit.patch
 Patch6:        festival-1.96-speechtools-ohjeezcxxisnotgcc.patch
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ Patch17:       festival-2.5.0-festconfig.patch
 License:       MIT
 ## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
 BuildRequires: glibc-devel
-BuildRequires: ldconfig
 BuildRequires: libalsa-devel
 BuildRequires: libgcc
 BuildRequires: libgomp-devel
@@ -114,13 +112,13 @@ unzip pc_diphone.zip
 unzip pc_mbrola_unix.zip
 unzip pc_ogi_diphone.zip
 
-%patch3 -p0
-%patch6 -p0
-%patch13 -p1
-%patch14 -p0
-%patch15 -p0
-%patch16 -p0
-%patch17 -p0
+%patch 3 -p0
+%patch 6 -p0
+%patch 13 -p1
+%patch 14 -p0
+%patch 15 -p0
+%patch 16 -p0
+%patch 17 -p0
 
 # Avoid make failure on making scripts and docs
 sed -i "s|examples bin doc|examples|" festival/Makefile
@@ -129,6 +127,9 @@ sed -i "s|examples bin doc|examples|" festival/Makefile
 # FIXME: patched to build but main final link fails with this module
 # OGIresLPC
 
+cd festival
+autoreconf -f -i
+
 %build
 #:<< __EOF
 cd speech_tools
@@ -141,11 +142,8 @@ cd speech_tools
 # libs="-L$(pwd)/lib"
 
 cd ../festival
-#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$(pwd)/src/lib
 %configure
-%make -j1 \
-    OPTIMISE_CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIC" \
-    OPTIMISE_CCFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS  -fPIC"
+%make -j1
 
 #FTLIBDIR=%{_datadir}/festival/lib \
 
@@ -224,9 +222,6 @@ done
 %clean
 [ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
 
-%post-n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_bindir}/*
@@ -290,6 +285,9 @@ done
 %{_datadir}/festival/dicts/ifd*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 08 2024 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.5.0-2mamba
+- fixed url; closes #1
+
 * Sat Aug 17 2019 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.5.0-1mamba
 - update to 2.5.0