diff --git a/boost.spec b/boost.spec
index a30763b..0893390 100644
--- a/boost.spec
+++ b/boost.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 %define docs_version 1.56.0
 %define short_version 1_56
 %define lib_appendix 1_62_0
+# building manpages is broken
 %bcond_with    build_docs
 %bcond_without package_pdf
 %bcond_without build_quickbook
@@ -182,6 +183,7 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 This package contains the documentation of the boost dynamic libraries
 in HTML format.
 
+%if %{with build_docs}
 # %%package        doc-man
 # Summary:        Man documentation for the Boost C++ Libraries
 # Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
@@ -192,6 +194,7 @@ in HTML format.
 # %%description    doc-man
 # This package contains the documentation of the boost dynamic libraries
 # as man pages.
+%endif
 
 %if %{with package_pdf}
 %package      -n %{package_name}-doc-pdf
@@ -484,7 +487,7 @@ export LONG_DOUBLE_FLAGS="--disable-long-double"
 BJAM_CONFIG="-d2 -sICU_PATH=%{_prefix}"
 PYTHON_VERSION=$(python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]')
 PYTHON3_VERSION=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print (sys.version[:3])')
-PYTHON3_ABIFLAGS=m
+PYTHON3_ABIFLAGS=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print (sys.abiflags);')
 export REGEX_FLAGS="--with-icu"
 export EXPAT_INCLUDE=%{_includedir} EXPAT_LIBPATH=%{_libdir}
 LIBRARIES_FLAGS=--with-libraries=all
@@ -886,11 +889,13 @@ install -m 0755 dist/bin/quickbook %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/quickbook
 %doc %{my_docdir}/*
 %exclude %{my_docdir}/LICENSE_1_0.txt
 
+%if %{with build_docs}
 # %%files doc-man
 # %%defattr(644, root, root, -)
 # %%doc %%{_mandir}/man3/*.3.gz
 # %%doc %%{_mandir}/man7/*.7.gz
 # %%doc %%{_mandir}/man9/*.9.gz
+%endif
 
 %if %{with package_pdf}
 %files -n %{package_name}-doc-pdf
@@ -898,8 +903,10 @@ install -m 0755 dist/bin/quickbook %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/quickbook
 %doc ../boost_%{short_version}_pdf/*.pdf
 %endif
 
+%if %{with build_quickbook}
 %files -n %{package_name}-quickbook
 %defattr(-, root, root, -)
 %{_bindir}/quickbook
+%endif
 
 %changelog