diff --git a/pyparsing.spec b/pyparsing.spec
index e7b135e..da70753 100644
--- a/pyparsing.spec
+++ b/pyparsing.spec
@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@
 %global python2_wheelname %{srcname}-%{version}-py2.py3-none-any.whl
 %global python3_wheelname %python2_wheelname
 
+# when bootstrapping Python 3, pyparsing needs to be rebuilt before sphinx
+%bcond_with doc
+
 Summary:        %{sum}
 Name:           pyparsing
 Version:        2.4.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing
@@ -21,7 +24,10 @@ BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 BuildRequires:  python2-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
+
+%if %{with doc}
 BuildRequires:  python3-sphinx
+%endif
 
 %if 0%{?build_wheel}
 BuildRequires:  python2-pip
@@ -35,11 +41,13 @@ pyparsing is a module that can be used to easily and directly configure syntax
 definitions for any number of text parsing applications.
 
 
+%if %{with doc}
 %package        doc
 Summary:        Documentation for pyparsing python package
 
 %description    doc
 The package contains documentation for pyparsing.
+%endif
 
 
 %package -n python2-%{srcname}
@@ -81,12 +89,14 @@ dos2unix -k CHANGES LICENSE
 %py3_build
 %endif
 
+%if %{with doc}
 # build docs
 pushd docs
 # Theme is not available
 sed -i '/alabaster/d' conf.py
 sphinx-build -b html . html
 popd
+%endif
 
 %install
 %if 0%{?build_wheel}
@@ -120,12 +130,17 @@ popd
 %{python3_sitelib}/__pycache__/*
 %{python3_sitelib}/pyparsing-*dist-info/
 
+%if %{with doc}
 %files doc
 %license LICENSE
 %doc CHANGES README.rst docs/html examples
+%endif
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 14 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 2.4.0-3
+- Bootstrap for Python 3.8
+
 * Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild