diff --git a/graphene.changes b/graphene.changes
index ea00028..80e2ee9 100644
--- a/graphene.changes
+++ b/graphene.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 10 01:57:07 CEST 2017 - ro@suse.de
+
+- on i586, disable sse2 for the moment, otherwise the package
+  fails in the testsuite on the "box" test 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Mar  4 08:47:33 UTC 2017 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/graphene.spec b/graphene.spec
index 30fd10d..e668746 100644
--- a/graphene.spec
+++ b/graphene.spec
@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@ This subpackage contains the development files for the Graphene library.
 # meson errors out without a utf8 LANG set
 # https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1085
 export LANG=C.UTF-8
+M_OPTIONS=""
 %ifarch i586
 # on i586, the compiler drops 'libm' and then g-ir-scanner fails to resolve it
 # See gh#ebassie/graphene#82
 export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
+M_OPTIONS="-Denable-sse2=false"
 %endif
-%meson
+%meson $M_OPTIONS
 %meson_build
 
 %install