diff --git a/xz.changes b/xz.changes
index b47d644..8acfd3d 100644
--- a/xz.changes
+++ b/xz.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jul 29 17:52:57 UTC 2012 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Disable profiling on SPARC due to compiler bug [gcc #54121]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jul  6 10:18:06 UTC 2012 - sweet_f_a@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/xz.spec b/xz.spec
index df381c3..3c670f0 100644
--- a/xz.spec
+++ b/xz.spec
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Obsoletes:      lzma < %version
 %if 0%{?suse_version} < 1130
 %define do_profiling 0
 %endif
-%ifarch %{arm}
+%ifarch %{arm} %sparc
 %define do_profiling 0
 %endif