diff --git a/maxscale.spec b/maxscale.spec
index c8d12ba2f..9ab55ef41 100644
--- a/maxscale.spec
+++ b/maxscale.spec
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ MaxScale
 
 %build
 ln -s /lib64/libaio.so.1 /lib64/libaio.so
-make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" clean
-make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" depend
-make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME=""
-make DEST=`pwd`/binaries ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" ERRMSG="/usr/share/mysql/english"  install
+make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" $DEBUG_FLAG1 $DEBUG_FLAG2 clean
+make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" $DEBUG_FLAG1 $DEBUG_FLAG2 depend
+make ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" $DEBUG_FLAG1 $DEBUG_FLAG2
+make DEST=`pwd`/binaries ROOT_PATH=`pwd` HOME="" ERRMSG="/usr/share/mysql/english" $DEBUG_FLAG1 $DEBUG_FLAG2  install
 
 %post
 ln -s /lib64/libaio.so.1 /lib64/libaio.so