diff --git a/python-pyflakes.changes b/python-pyflakes.changes
index c8f0e39..d32858a 100644
--- a/python-pyflakes.changes
+++ b/python-pyflakes.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 27 14:07:19 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Fix building python 3 package on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 26 09:07:39 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python3-pyflakes.changes b/python3-pyflakes.changes
index 242a8f4..91a4078 100644
--- a/python3-pyflakes.changes
+++ b/python3-pyflakes.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 27 14:07:19 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Fix building python 3 package on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 26 09:07:39 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python3-pyflakes.spec b/python3-pyflakes.spec
index 892c092..7eed2e6 100644
--- a/python3-pyflakes.spec
+++ b/python3-pyflakes.spec
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
 #
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
-%{!?python3_sitelib: %global python3_sitelib %(python3 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
-%{!?python3_sitearch: %global python3_sitearch %(python3 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
 
 Name:           python3-pyflakes
 Version:        0.5.0
@@ -26,11 +24,19 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Source:         pyflakes-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  python3
+BuildRequires:  python3-2to3
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
-Requires:       python3 >= %{py3_ver}
-%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1110
-BuildArch:      noarch
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1140
+%{!?python3_sitelib: %global python3_sitelib %(python3 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
+%{!?py3_ver: %global py3_ver %(python3 -c "import sys; version=str(sys.version_info[0]) + '.' + str(sys.version_info[1]); print(version)" 2>/dev/null || echo PYTHON-NOT-FOUND)}
+%ifarch x86_64
+# to allow ownership of noarch python directories
+BuildRequires:  python3-32bit 
 %endif
+%endif
+BuildArch:      noarch
+Requires:       python3 >= %{py3_ver}
 
 %description
 Pyflakes is program to analyze Python programs and detect various errors. It
@@ -49,7 +55,10 @@ mv %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pyflakes %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pyflakes-python%{py3_v
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%{python3_sitelib}/*
 %{_bindir}/pyflakes-python%{py3_ver}
+%{python3_sitelib}/*
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1140
+%dir %{python3_sitelib}
+%endif
 
 %changelog