diff --git a/ansible.spec b/ansible.spec
index 0ee7813..142db17 100644
--- a/ansible.spec
+++ b/ansible.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
 %endif
 
+%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
+%global with_docs 1
+%else
+%global with_docs 0
+%endif
+
 %if 0%{?fedora}
 %global with_python3 1
 %else
@@ -217,7 +223,7 @@ cp -a . %{py3dir}
 %{__python2} setup.py build
 # Build docs
 # EPEL6/7 don't have a recent enough sphinx to build the docs
-%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
+%if %with_docs
   make webdocs
 %endif
 
@@ -260,7 +266,7 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir}/man1
 cp -v docs/man/man1/*.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir}/man1/
 
 cp -pr docs/docsite/rst .
-%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
+%if %with_docs
   cp -pr docs/docsite/_build/html .
 %endif
 
@@ -320,7 +326,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %files -n ansible-doc
 %doc rst
-%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
+%if %with_docs
 %doc html
 %endif