diff --git a/docker.changes b/docker.changes
index 408e374..408b3fc 100644
--- a/docker.changes
+++ b/docker.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 24 09:02:03 UTC 2015 - fcastelli@suse.com
+
+- Build man pages only on platforms where gc compiler is available.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 22 08:48:11 UTC 2015 - fcastelli@suse.com
 
diff --git a/docker.spec b/docker.spec
index e417064..d4a4840 100644
--- a/docker.spec
+++ b/docker.spec
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ BuildRequires:  glibc-devel-static
 BuildRequires:  gcc5-go >= 5.0
 %else
 BuildRequires:  go >= 1.4
-%endif
 BuildRequires:  go-go-md2man
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  libapparmor-devel
 BuildRequires:  libbtrfs-devel >= 3.8
 BuildRequires:  procps
@@ -155,8 +155,10 @@ export DOCKER_GITCOMMIT=%{git_version}
 EOF
 ) > docker_build_env
 . ./docker_build_env
+%ifnarch ppc ppc64 s390x ppc64p7 ppc64le
 ./hack/make.sh dynbinary
 man/md2man-all.sh
+%endif
 # remove other than systemd
 # otherwise the resulting package will have extra requires
 rm -rf hack/make/.build-deb
@@ -198,11 +200,13 @@ install -D -m 644 %SOURCE100 %{buildroot}/var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.doc
 install -D -m 644 %SOURCE4 %{buildroot}/var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.docker
 %endif
 
+%ifnarch ppc ppc64 s390x ppc64p7 ppc64le
 # install manpages
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 install -p -m 644 man/man1/*.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man5
 install -p -m 644 man/man5/Dockerfile.5 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man5
+%endif
 
 %pre
 echo "creating group docker..."
@@ -230,9 +234,11 @@ groupadd -r docker 2>/dev/null || :
 %{_unitdir}/%{name}.socket
 %{_prefix}/lib/udev/rules.d/80-%{name}.rules
 /var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.docker
+%ifnarch ppc ppc64 s390x ppc64p7 ppc64le
 %{_mandir}/man1/docker-*.1.gz
 %{_mandir}/man1/docker.1.gz
 %{_mandir}/man5/Dockerfile.5.gz
+%endif
 
 %files bash-completion
 %defattr(-,root,root)