diff --git a/neon/neon.spec b/neon/neon.spec
index ceb15e2e7a..3ac9cf8c74 100644
--- a/neon/neon.spec
+++ b/neon/neon.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Vendor:       Joe Orton
 Packager:     The OpenPKG Project
 Distribution: OpenPKG [EXP]
 Group:        Web
-License:      GPL
+License:      LGPL
 Version:      0.18.5
 Release:      20020201
 
@@ -41,13 +41,16 @@ Source0:      http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-%{version}.tar.gz
 #   build information
 Prefix:       %{l_prefix}
 BuildRoot:    %{l_buildroot}
-BuildPreReq:  OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20011227, libxml, openssl
-PreReq:       OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20011227
+BuildPreReq:  OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20011227, libxml, openssl, zlib, libiconv
+PreReq:       OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20011227, libxml, openssl, zlib, libiconv
 AutoReq:      no
 AutoReqProv:  no
 
 %description
-    neon is a HTTP and WebCAD client library with a C interface.
+    neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library with a C interface.
+    It supports persistent connections, RFC2617 basic and digest
+    authentication, proxy support, SSL/TLS support, XML parsing, WebDAV
+    resource manipulation, WebDAV metadata support, etc.
 
 %prep
     %setup -q 
@@ -55,14 +58,16 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
 %build
     CC="%{l_cc}" \
     CFLAGS="%{l_cflags -O}" \
+    CPPFLAGS="-I%{l_prefix}/include" \
+    LDFLAGS="-L%{l_prefix}/lib" \
     XML2_CONFIG="%{l_prefix}/bin/xml2-config" \
     ./configure \
         --prefix=%{l_prefix} \
-        --disable-shared \
-        --enable-static \
+        --with-ssl=%{l_prefix} \
         --with-libxml2 \
-        --without-zlib \
-        --with-ssl=%{l_prefix}
+        --with-zlib \
+        --disable-shared \
+        --enable-static
     %{l_make} %{l_mflags -O}
 
 %install