diff --git a/gmp-6.0.0-ppc64-gcd.diff b/gmp-6.0.0-ppc64-gcd.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c503cb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gmp-6.0.0-ppc64-gcd.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+# HG changeset patch
+# User Torbjorn Granlund <tege@gmplib.org>
+# Date 1395835068 -3600
+# Node ID 4a6d258b467f661da0894cc60ecd060f2e3c67c7
+# Parent  301ce2788826a2d4d2725bd5cf01e998638db37a
+Provide default for BMOD_1_TO_MOD_1_THRESHOLD.
+
+diff -r 301ce2788826 -r 4a6d258b467f mpn/powerpc64/mode64/gcd_1.asm
+--- a/mpn/powerpc64/mode64/gcd_1.asm	Tue Mar 25 15:34:52 2014 +0100
++++ b/mpn/powerpc64/mode64/gcd_1.asm	Wed Mar 26 12:57:48 2014 +0100
+@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
+ define(`n',     `r4')
+ define(`v0',    `r5')
+ 
++ifdef(`BMOD_1_TO_MOD_1_THRESHOLD',,
++  `define(`BMOD_1_TO_MOD_1_THRESHOLD',30)')
++
+ EXTERN_FUNC(mpn_mod_1)
+ EXTERN_FUNC(mpn_modexact_1c_odd)
+ 
+
diff --git a/gmp.changes b/gmp.changes
index 78f27f3..49dccf1 100644
--- a/gmp.changes
+++ b/gmp.changes
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Wed Mar 26 09:39:48 UTC 2014 - rguenther@suse.com
   * Better support for applications which use the mpz_t type, but
     nevertheless need to call some of the lower-level mpn functions.  See
     the documentation for mpz_limbs_read and related functions.
+- gmp-6.0.0-ppc64-gcd.diff: Fix build on ppc64 and ppc64le
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Dec  4 10:42:28 UTC 2013 - anton@samba.org
diff --git a/gmp.spec b/gmp.spec
index 90978f4..039f7af 100644
--- a/gmp.spec
+++ b/gmp.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Url:            http://gmplib.org/
 Source:         ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
 Patch0:         gmp-noexec.diff
+Patch1:         gmp-6.0.0-ppc64-gcd.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -74,11 +75,15 @@ huge numbers (integer and floating point).
 %setup -q
 %ifnarch %arm
 %patch0
+%patch1 -p1
 %endif
 
 %build
-export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fexceptions";
-%configure \
+export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fexceptions"
+# Do not use %configure here, that will break build on SLE11
+./configure \
+	--prefix=%{_prefix} \
+	--libdir=%{_libdir} \
         --enable-cxx \
         --enable-fat
 make %{?_smp_mflags}