diff --git a/nghttp2.changes b/nghttp2.changes
index 72c464a..438883d 100644
--- a/nghttp2.changes
+++ b/nghttp2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec 11 16:53:16 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 before running configure: allow to
+  build without (comnplete) python2 in the buildroot. In any case
+  we only ship python3-bindings already.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Dec  6 16:35:46 UTC 2017 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/nghttp2.spec b/nghttp2.spec
index 3cb19b2..c689bf4 100644
--- a/nghttp2.spec
+++ b/nghttp2.spec
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ HTTP/2 client, server and proxy.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fiv
+export PYTHON=%{_bindir}/python3
 %configure \
   --disable-static        \
   --disable-silent-rules  \