diff --git a/geeqie-bigendian.patch b/geeqie-bigendian.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d10046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geeqie-bigendian.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Index: geeqie-1.1/src/image_load_tiff.c
+===================================================================
+--- geeqie-1.1.orig/src/image_load_tiff.c
++++ geeqie-1.1/src/image_load_tiff.c
+@@ -326,18 +326,21 @@ static gboolean image_loader_tiff_load (
+ 		/* Turns out that the packing used by TIFFRGBAImage depends on 
+         	 * the host byte order... 
+ 	         */ 
+-		while (pixels < pixbuf->pixels + bytes) 
++		{
++		guchar *ptr = pixels;
++		while (ptr < pixels + bytes)
+ 			{
+-			uint32 pixel = *(uint32 *)pixels;
++			uint32 pixel = *(uint32 *)ptr;
+ 			int r = TIFFGetR(pixel);
+ 			int g = TIFFGetG(pixel);
+ 			int b = TIFFGetB(pixel);
+ 			int a = TIFFGetA(pixel);
+-			*pixels++ = r;
+-			*pixels++ = g;
+-			*pixels++ = b;
+-			*pixels++ = a;
++			*ptr++ = r;
++			*ptr++ = g;
++			*ptr++ = b;
++			*ptr++ = a;
+ 			}
++		}
+ #endif
+ 
+ 		lt->area_updated_cb(loader, 0, 0, width, height, lt->data);
+@@ -419,4 +422,4 @@ void image_loader_backend_set_tiff(Image
+ 
+ 
+ 
+-#endif
+\ No newline at end of file
++#endif
diff --git a/geeqie.changes b/geeqie.changes
index fab3414..128cfde 100644
--- a/geeqie.changes
+++ b/geeqie.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 28 11:53:06 UTC 2012 - dvaleev@suse.com
+
+- fix bigendian build (geeqie-bigendian.patch) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Sep 16 13:05:05 UTC 2012 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/geeqie.spec b/geeqie.spec
index 576d2f0..dd13538 100644
--- a/geeqie.spec
+++ b/geeqie.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Group:          Productivity/Graphics/Viewers
 ## FIXME - Check on version update if support for the libchamplain we have in factory is finaly supported, last checked version 1.1
 Url:            http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
 Source:         http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/geeqie/geeqie/geeqie-1.1/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+#PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM fix bigendian build -- upstream commit c6793b7
+Patch0:         geeqie-bigendian.patch
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  gnome-doc-utils
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ operating systems.
 %lang_package
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \