diff --git a/ldc.changes b/ldc.changes
index 0ccc357..ee09a87 100644
--- a/ldc.changes
+++ b/ldc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 25 15:09:09 UTC 2020 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
+
+- Fix aarch64 build:  Drop '-mbranch-protection=standard' option
+  as llvm7 does not support it
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct  1 09:04:59 UTC 2020 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/ldc.spec b/ldc.spec
index 2ea4dfc..3e5bba4 100644
--- a/ldc.spec
+++ b/ldc.spec
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ popd
 %endif
 
 %build
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1550 || 0%{?sle_version} >= 150200
+%ifarch aarch64
+# llvm7 does not support '-mbranch-protection=standard' option
+export CFLAGS=`echo "%{optflags}" |sed 's/-mbranch-protection=standard//'`
+export CXXFLAGS=`echo "%{optflags}" |sed 's/-mbranch-protection=standard//'`
+%endif
+%endif
 %if %{with ldc_bootstrap}
 pushd ldc-0.17.6-src
 #Needs to be compiled with clang, but opensuse_rules.cmake forces gcc so disable rule