diff --git a/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch b/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..03221be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+commit 9f4200d6d81924a1b0368af034a1ff48728543f6
+Author: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
+Date:   Wed Dec 10 23:09:38 2014 -0500
+
+    configure: add a verbose mode
+    
+    Required for Fedora infrastructure so that the commands used to build
+    ninja are logged.
+
+diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
+index aac4ad4..00da22a 100755
+--- a/configure.py
++++ b/configure.py
+@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ class Bootstrap:
+     It also proxies all calls to an underlying ninja_syntax.Writer, to
+     behave like non-bootstrap mode.
+     """
+-    def __init__(self, writer):
++    def __init__(self, writer, verbose=False):
+         self.writer = writer
++        self.verbose = verbose
+         # Map of variable name => expanded variable value.
+         self.vars = {}
+         # Map of rule name => dict of rule attributes.
+@@ -163,6 +164,8 @@ class Bootstrap:
+     def _run_command(self, cmdline):
+         """Run a subcommand, quietly.  Prints the full command on error."""
+         try:
++            if self.verbose:
++                print(cmdline)
+             subprocess.check_call(cmdline, shell=True)
+         except subprocess.CalledProcessError, e:
+             print('when running: ', cmdline)
+@@ -173,6 +176,8 @@ parser = OptionParser()
+ profilers = ['gmon', 'pprof']
+ parser.add_option('--bootstrap', action='store_true',
+                   help='bootstrap a ninja binary from nothing')
++parser.add_option('--verbose', action='store_true',
++                  help='enable verbose build')
+ parser.add_option('--platform',
+                   help='target platform (' +
+                        '/'.join(Platform.known_platforms()) + ')',
+@@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ if options.bootstrap:
+     # Wrap ninja_writer with the Bootstrapper, which also executes the
+     # commands.
+     print('bootstrapping ninja...')
+-    n = Bootstrap(n)
++    n = Bootstrap(n, verbose=options.verbose)
+ 
+ n.comment('This file is used to build ninja itself.')
+ n.comment('It is generated by ' + os.path.basename(__file__) + '.')
+@@ -602,6 +607,10 @@ n.build('all', 'phony', all_targets)
+ n.close()
+ print('wrote %s.' % BUILD_FILENAME)
+ 
++verbose = ''
++if options.verbose:
++    verbose = ' -v'
++
+ if options.bootstrap:
+     print('bootstrap complete.  rebuilding...')
+     if platform.is_windows():
+@@ -609,6 +618,6 @@ if options.bootstrap:
+         if os.path.exists(bootstrap_exe):
+             os.unlink(bootstrap_exe)
+         os.rename('ninja.exe', bootstrap_exe)
+-        subprocess.check_call('ninja.bootstrap.exe', shell=True)
++        subprocess.check_call('ninja.bootstrap.exe%s' % verbose, shell=True)
+     else:
+-        subprocess.check_call('./ninja', shell=True)
++        subprocess.check_call('./ninja%s' % verbose, shell=True)
diff --git a/ninja-build.spec b/ninja-build.spec
index 7ba02b4..158a96a 100644
--- a/ninja-build.spec
+++ b/ninja-build.spec
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ License:        ASL 2.0
 URL:            http://martine.github.com/ninja/
 Source0:        https://github.com/martine/ninja/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/ninja-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        ninja.vim
+# https://github.com/martine/ninja/pull/882
+Patch0:         ninja-1.5.3-verbose-build.patch
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
 BuildRequires:  gtest-devel
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ fast as possible.
 
 %prep
 %setup -qn ninja-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1 -b .verbose-build
 
 %build
 CFLAGS="%{optflags}" LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}" \