diff --git a/macros.mingw32 b/macros.mingw32
index 5a55519..644085f 100644
--- a/macros.mingw32
+++ b/macros.mingw32
@@ -125,9 +125,11 @@
   if test -f CMakeLists.txt; then __mingw32_topdir=.; \\\
   elif test -f ../CMakeLists.txt; then __mingw32_topdir=..; \\\
   else __mingw32_topdir=""; fi; \\\
+  if test "${MINGW_CMAKE_NO_VERBOSE}" == "" ; then \
+    MINGW32_CMAKE_ARGS="${MINGW32_CMAKE_ARGS} -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON" \
+  fi \
   PATH=%{_prefix}/%{mingw32_target}/bin:$PATH %__cmake \\\
         -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/usr/share/mingw/toolchain-mingw32.cmake \\\
-        -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \\\
         -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON \\\
         -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%{mingw32_libdir} \\\
         -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%{mingw32_sysconfdir} \\\
diff --git a/macros.mingw64 b/macros.mingw64
index 106bfe0..c1d7893 100644
--- a/macros.mingw64
+++ b/macros.mingw64
@@ -125,9 +125,11 @@
   if test -f CMakeLists.txt; then __mingw64_topdir=.; \\\
   elif test -f ../CMakeLists.txt; then __mingw64_topdir=..; \\\
   else __mingw64_topdir=""; fi; \\\
+  if test "${MINGW_CMAKE_NO_VERBOSE}" == "" ; then \
+    MINGW64_CMAKE_ARGS="${MINGW64_CMAKE_ARGS} -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON" \
+  fi \
   PATH=%{_prefix}/%{mingw64_target}/bin:$PATH %__cmake \\\
         -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/usr/share/mingw/toolchain-mingw64.cmake \\\
-        -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \\\
         -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON \\\
         -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%{mingw64_libdir} \\\
         -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=%{mingw64_sysconfdir} \\\
diff --git a/mingw-filesystem.spec b/mingw-filesystem.spec
index 372fb5c..c752d93 100644
--- a/mingw-filesystem.spec
+++ b/mingw-filesystem.spec
@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ install -m 0644 %{SOURCE12} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/mingw/
   * Made the RPM macros mingw32_cmake, mingw32_cmake_kde4,
     mingw64_cmake and mingw64_cmake_kde4 more generic
   * Removed the rpath references as mingw doesn't support rpath
+  * Allow verbose CMake output to be disabled by setting the
+    environment variable MINGW_CMAKE_NO_VERBOSE (RHBZ #987644)
 
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org>
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild