diff --git a/john.changes b/john.changes
index add642c..ca57b2c 100644
--- a/john.changes
+++ b/john.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 10 13:32:21 UTC 2019 - simmphonie@opensuse.org
+
+- Fixed build for ARM and PPC. CPU with AVX support at least is
+  only available for x86_64 architecture now.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 10 06:57:56 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/john.spec b/john.spec
index d933e62..66475fd 100644
--- a/john.spec
+++ b/john.spec
@@ -66,7 +66,15 @@ perl -pi -e 's#^(\#define JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_HOME)\s.+$#$1\t\"%{johndir}\"#g' $RPM_
 
 %build
 pushd src
-%configure --with-systemwide --disable-openmp --enable-fuzz --enable-experimental-code --enable-pkg-config --disable-native-tests --enable-simd=avx
+%configure --with-systemwide \
+           --disable-openmp \
+           --enable-fuzz \
+           --enable-experimental-code \
+           --enable-pkg-config \
+%ifarch x86_64
+            --enable-simd=avx \
+%endif
+           --disable-native-tests
 make -s clean
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd