diff --git a/lnav-0.7.0-bigendian.patch b/lnav-0.7.0-bigendian.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de1cce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lnav-0.7.0-bigendian.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Description: Fix FTBFS on big-endian architectures
+ Correctly convert byte encoding for 32bit value from little-endian
+ order to host byte order.
+Origin: vendor
+Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/743503
+Author: Jurica Stanojkovic <jurica.stanojkovic@imgtec.com> 
+Author: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2014-04-03
+
+--- a/src/line_buffer.cc
++++ b/src/line_buffer.cc
+@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <fcntl.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
++#include <endian.h>
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_BZLIB_H
+ #include <bzlib.h>
+@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@
+                             throw error(errno);
+                         }
+                     }
+-                    this->lb_file_time = *((int32_t *)&gz_id[4]);
++                    this->lb_file_time = le32toh(*((int32_t *)&gz_id[4]));
+                     if (this->lb_file_time < 0)
+                         this->lb_file_time = 0;
+                     this->lb_gz_offset = lseek(this->lb_fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
diff --git a/lnav.spec b/lnav.spec
index 4bd2cef..6117c19 100644
--- a/lnav.spec
+++ b/lnav.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 Name:           lnav
 Version:        0.7.0
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        A curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files
 License:        BSD
 URL:            http://lnav.org
 Source0:        https://github.com/tstack/lnav/releases/download/v%{version}/lnav-%{version}.tar.bz2
+# https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/93
+Patch0:         %{name}-0.7.0-bigendian.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  bzip2-devel
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ efficiently zero in on problems.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .bigendian
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fiv
@@ -48,6 +51,9 @@ make check
 %{_mandir}/man1/lnav.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Apr 04 2014 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 0.7.0-2
+- fix build on big endian arches
+
 * Tue Apr 01 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm@cicku.me> - 0.7.0-1
 - Update to 0.7.0