diff --git a/ninja.changes b/ninja.changes
index d715790..678921e 100644
--- a/ninja.changes
+++ b/ninja.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 26 13:27:25 UTC 2016 - matz@suse.de
+
+- Make it build on SLE11 (use python2 there).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 30 21:39:59 UTC 2016 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/ninja.spec b/ninja.spec
index 6b5288c..a93a083 100644
--- a/ninja.spec
+++ b/ninja.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ Url:            https://github.com/martine/ninja
 Source0:        https://github.com/martine/ninja/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch1:         ninja-disable-maxprocs-test.patch
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
+BuildRequires:  python-base
+%else
 BuildRequires:  python3-base
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  re2c
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -42,7 +46,11 @@ and orchestrates building them, quickly.
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
+python ./configure.py --bootstrap --verbose
+%else
 python3 ./configure.py --bootstrap --verbose
+%endif
 
 %install
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}