diff --git a/babel.spec b/babel.spec
index ccc8e2b..4db13d4 100644
--- a/babel.spec
+++ b/babel.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # There is some bootstrapping involved when upgrading Python 3
 # First of all we need babel (this package) to use sphinx
 # And pytest is at this point not yet ready
-%global bootstrap 0
+%bcond_with bootstrap
 
 # Build without Python 2 support from F33 on.
 %if !0%{?fedora}%{?rhel} || 0%{?fedora} >= 33 || 0%{?rhel} >= 9
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python2-freezegun
 %endif
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 BuildRequires:  python3-pytz
 BuildRequires:  python3-pytest
 BuildRequires:  python3-freezegun
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-freezegun
 # build the documentation
 BuildRequires:  make
 
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 BuildRequires:  python3-sphinx
 %endif
 Requires:       python3-babel
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Babel is composed of two major parts:
   providing access to various locale display names, localized number
   and date formatting, etc.
 
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 %package doc
 Summary:        Documentation for Babel
 Provides:       python-babel-doc = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Documentation for Babel
 BUILDDIR="$PWD/built-docs"
 rm -rf "$BUILDDIR"
 
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 pushd docs
 make \
     SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 \
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export TZ=America/New_York
 %if %{with python2} && %{with python2_pytest}
 %{__python2} -m pytest
 %endif
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 %{__python3} -m pytest
 %endif
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export TZ=America/New_York
 %{python3_sitelib}/Babel-%{version}-py*.egg-info
 %{python3_sitelib}/babel
 
-%if !%{bootstrap}
+%if !%{with bootstrap}
 %files doc
 %doc built-docs/html/*
 %endif