diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index e0cf3a5..70382cc 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 27 11:00:45 UTC 2020 - Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com>
+
+- Fix serial builds broken due to disabling the building of
+  examples; instead of commenting out sections of the specfile
+  related to examples, use %bcond_with to disable building
+  examples by default and the corresponding conditionals where
+  appropriate.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Apr 26 04:21:40 UTC 2020 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index fb72eb3..891eac9 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 %global flavor @BUILD_FLAVOR@%{nil}
 
+# FIXME: ENABLE EXAMPLES BY DEFAULT WHEN VERSION 9.0 IS PACKAGED
+# [https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues/17619]
+%bcond_with examples
+
 %if 0%{?sle_version} >= 150200
 %define DisOMPI1 ExclusiveArch:  do_not_build
 %endif
@@ -381,7 +385,7 @@ export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 # since JDK8.
 %cmake \
     -DBUILD_DOCUMENTATION:BOOL=ON \
-    -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=%{?with_examples:ON}%{!?with_examples:OFF} \
     -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
     -DCMAKE_NO_BUILTIN_CHRPATH:BOOL=ON \
     -DJava_JAVAH_EXECUTABLE:PATH=%{_bindir}/true \
@@ -433,6 +437,7 @@ find . -name \*.c -o -name \*.cxx -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.hxx -o -name \*.gif
 %install
 %cmake_install
 
+%if %{with examples}
 # List of executable examples
 cat > examples.list << EOF
 AmbientSpheres
@@ -484,6 +489,8 @@ done
 perl -pi -e's,^,%{my_bindir}/,' examples.list
 %endif
 
+%endif
+
 %fdupes -s %{buildroot}
 
 %check
@@ -563,10 +570,11 @@ find %{buildroot} . -name vtk.cpython-3*.pyc -delete # drop unreproducible time-
 %dir %{my_libdir}/qt5/plugins/designer/
 %{my_libdir}/qt5/plugins/designer/libQVTKWidgetPlugin.so
 
-# FIXME: UNCOMMENT WHEN VERSION 9.0 IS PACKAGED [https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues/17619]
-#%%if "%%{flavor}" == ""
-#%%files examples -f examples.list
-#%%license Copyright.txt
-#%%endif
+%if %{with examples}
+%if "%{flavor}" == ""
+%files examples -f examples.list
+%license Copyright.txt
+%endif
+%endif
 
 %changelog