diff --git a/systemtap-hppa.diff b/systemtap-hppa.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d453f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/systemtap-hppa.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- includes/sys/sdt.h.orig	2010-07-21 22:46:07.000000000 +0200
++++ includes/sys/sdt.h	2010-09-05 20:47:20.686243029 +0200
+@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ 
+-#if defined __x86_64__ || defined __i386__  || defined __powerpc__ || defined __arm__ || defined __sparc__
++#if defined __x86_64__ || defined __i386__  || defined __powerpc__ || defined __arm__ || defined __sparc__ || defined __hppa
+  #define STAP_NOP "\tnop "
+ #else
+  #define STAP_NOP "\tnop 0 "
diff --git a/systemtap.changes b/systemtap.changes
index c5569f7..a9dae6d 100644
--- a/systemtap.changes
+++ b/systemtap.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Sep  5 18:39:44 UTC 2010 - bg@novell.com
+
+- fix build for hppa
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 26 01:35:21 UTC 2010 - tonyj@novell.com
 
diff --git a/systemtap.spec b/systemtap.spec
index ef58cf1..66c0c6d 100644
--- a/systemtap.spec
+++ b/systemtap.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Source:         ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/snapshots/systemtap-%{pac
 # need -docdir patch even though docs are packaged by systemtap-docs.spec
 # so that they are installed into directories matching below rm -rf's
 Patch1:         systemtap-docdir-fix.diff
+Patch2:         systemtap-hppa.diff
 
 Requires:       libebl1
 Requires:       %{name}-runtime = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ Authors:
 %setup -n %{name}-%{package_version} -q
 %endif
 %patch1 -p1
+%patch2
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi