diff --git a/ghc-formatting.spec b/ghc-formatting.spec
index 45e33bd..e3555e4 100644
--- a/ghc-formatting.spec
+++ b/ghc-formatting.spec
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ This package provides the Haskell %{pkg_name} profiling library.
 dos2unix -k -n %{SOURCE1} %{pkg_name}.cabal
 # End cabal-rpm setup
 
+%ifarch ppc64le
+sed -e "s/ -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N//" %{pkg_name}.cabal
+%endif
+
 
 %build
 # Begin cabal-rpm build: