diff --git a/rpm.changes b/rpm.changes
index 2f8a365..2a793b0 100644
--- a/rpm.changes
+++ b/rpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 22 15:23:10 UTC 2011 - adrian@suse.de
+
+- use gnueabi for arm builds
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep  6 11:16:29 UTC 2011 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index 3bd4b13..fef4b36 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -206,7 +206,13 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd
 ./autogen.sh --prefix=%{_prefix} --mandir=%{_mandir} --infodir=%{_infodir} \
 --libdir=%{_libdir} --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-lua \
---with-selinux --with-internal-beecrypt --with-acl --with-cap --enable-shared %{?with_python: --enable-python}
+--with-selinux --with-internal-beecrypt --with-acl --with-cap --enable-shared %{?with_python: --enable-python} \
+%ifarch %arm armv5l armv7l
+--host="%{_host_cpu}-suse-linux-gnueabi" # configure.ac detects this to set %_gnu in macros
+%else
+--host="%{_host_cpu}-suse-linux"
+%endif
+
 rm po/de.gmo
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 make convertdb1