diff --git a/gnubg.changes b/gnubg.changes
index 1645ef7..f426b3a 100644
--- a/gnubg.changes
+++ b/gnubg.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 24 09:19:57 UTC 2018 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- Disable CPU detection during compile time and assume SSE2 is available everywhere, but AVX is not (boo#1100677)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 18 10:40:48 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnubg.spec b/gnubg.spec
index 3e456ee..03e660e 100644
--- a/gnubg.spec
+++ b/gnubg.spec
@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ fi
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
 export SUSE_ASNEEDED=1
-%configure --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name}
+simd=no
+%ifarch %ix86 x86_64
+simd=sse2
+%endif
+%configure --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name} --enable-simd=$simd
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install