diff --git a/btrfsprogs.changes b/btrfsprogs.changes
index 9ff9104..58a1014 100644
--- a/btrfsprogs.changes
+++ b/btrfsprogs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Feb 17 00:00:00 CET 2018 - dsterba@suse.cz
+
+- use documentation shipped by upstream tar, reduce dependencies
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 CET 2018 - dsterba@suse.cz
+
+- enable static build again, zstd now has static version
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb  2 00:00:00 CET 2018 - dsterba@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/btrfsprogs.spec b/btrfsprogs.spec
index 53d8961..9f0be57 100644
--- a/btrfsprogs.spec
+++ b/btrfsprogs.spec
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@
 %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1310 || 0%{?suse_version} == 1315
 %define build_static	0
 %else
-# temporarily disable until libzstd-devel-static
-%define build_static	0
+%define build_static	1
 %endif
 
+# the tarball contains prebuilt documentation
+%define build_docs	0
+
 Name:           btrfsprogs
 Version:        4.15
 Release:        0
@@ -45,7 +47,9 @@ Source5:        sles11-defaults.h
 
 Patch1:         mkfs-default-features.patch
 
+%if %build_docs
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  libattr-devel
@@ -66,7 +70,9 @@ BuildRequires:  udev
 %if 0%{?suse_version} == 1310
 BuildRequires:  libudev-devel
 %endif
+%if %build_docs
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1310
 Requires(post): coreutils
@@ -91,6 +97,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libblkid-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  libcom_err-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  libext2fs-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  libuuid-devel-static
+BuildRequires:  libzstd-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  lzo-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel-static
 
@@ -150,6 +157,9 @@ export CFLAGS="%optflags -include sles11-defaults.h"
 %endif
 
 %configure			\
+%if !%build_docs
+			--disable-documentation	\
+%endif
 %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1500
 			--disable-zstd
 %endif
@@ -166,6 +176,15 @@ make install		\
 %endif
 	DESTDIR=%{buildroot} prefix=%{_prefix} bindir=%{_sbindir} mandir=%{_mandir} libdir=%{_libdir}
 
+%if !%build_docs
+cd Documentation
+# fool make to avoid rebuilding some of the sources
+touch btrfs-man5.5.gz btrfs-man5.asciidoc
+touch btrfs-ioctl.asciidoc touch btrfs-ioctl.3.gz
+make V=1 MV=mv DESTDIR=%{buildroot} prefix=%{_prefix} bindir=%{_sbindir} mandir=%{_mandir} libdir=%{_libdir} install
+cd ..
+%endif
+
 %if %build_static
 make install-static DESTDIR=%{buildroot} prefix=%{_prefix} bindir=%{_sbindir} mandir=%{_mandir} libdir=%{_libdir}
 %endif
@@ -197,7 +216,6 @@ install -d -m0755 %{buildroot}/lib/mkinitrd/scripts/
 install -m 0755 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}/lib/mkinitrd/scripts/
 install -m 0755 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}/lib/mkinitrd/scripts/
 %endif
-find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" -delete -print
 # don't install .a for now
 rm -f %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/*.a
 # bash completion