diff --git a/pulseview.changes b/pulseview.changes
index 9ac9dab..1c10f18 100644
--- a/pulseview.changes
+++ b/pulseview.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 11 23:29:37 UTC 2016 - stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
+
+- Add -fext-numeric-literals compiler flag as workaround for
+  boo#1004168
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 30 12:31:29 UTC 2016 - stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
 
diff --git a/pulseview.spec b/pulseview.spec
index 57fea30..336f679 100644
--- a/pulseview.spec
+++ b/pulseview.spec
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ PulseView is a Qt-based GUI for sigrok.
 %setup -q
 
 %build
-export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -fpermissive"
+# -fext-numeric-literal is a workaround for boo#1004168, remove when fixed
+export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -fpermissive -fext-numeric-literals"
 %cmake -DDISABLE_WERROR=TRUE ..
 make %{?_smp_mflags}