diff --git a/john.changes b/john.changes
index 379fdb8..90784a5 100644
--- a/john.changes
+++ b/john.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 30 09:40:39 UTC 2011 - joop.boonen@boonen.org
+
+- Added a fix for the arm architecture, TARGET generic
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul  8 08:56:40 UTC 2011 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
 
diff --git a/john.spec b/john.spec
index 38775c3..14ca77b 100644
--- a/john.spec
+++ b/john.spec
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ perl -pi -e 's#^(\#define JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_HOME)\s.+$#$1\t\"%{johndir}\"#g' $RPM_
 %ifarch x86_64
 		TARGET=linux-x86-64
 %endif
+%ifarch %arm
+		TARGET=generic
+%endif
 %ifarch %ix86
 if test -z "$TARGET"; then
     TARGET=linux-x86-any