diff --git a/xerces-c-add-ppc64le.patch b/xerces-c-add-ppc64le.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8334287
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xerces-c-add-ppc64le.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -Naur xerces-c-src_2_7_0.orig/src/xercesc/config.guess xerces-c-src_2_7_0/src/xercesc/config.guess
+--- xerces-c-src_2_7_0.orig/src/xercesc/config.guess	2014-05-22 18:23:43.000001489 -0500
++++ xerces-c-src_2_7_0/src/xercesc/config.guess	2014-05-22 18:27:10.210001485 -0500
+@@ -821,6 +821,9 @@
+     ppc64:Linux:*:*)
+ 	echo powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
+ 	exit 0 ;;
++    ppc64le:Linux:*:*)
++	echo powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
++	exit 0 ;;
+     alpha:Linux:*:*)
+ 	case `sed -n '/^cpu model/s/^.*: \(.*\)/\1/p' < /proc/cpuinfo` in
+ 	  EV5)   UNAME_MACHINE=alphaev5 ;;
diff --git a/xerces-c27.spec b/xerces-c27.spec
index 0efe09a..a1e8e0d 100644
--- a/xerces-c27.spec
+++ b/xerces-c27.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 Summary:	Validating XML Parser
 Name:		xerces-c27
 Version:	2.7.0
-Release:	13%{?dist}
+Release:	14%{?dist}
 License:	ASL 2.0
 Group:		System Environment/Libraries
 URL:		http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
 Source0:        http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-c/Xerces-C_2_7_0/source/xerces-c-src_2_7_0.tar.gz
 Patch0:		xerces-c--CVE-2009-1885.diff
+Patch1:		xerces-c-add-ppc64le.patch
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 %description
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ for i in feedback.xml migration.xml releases_archive.xml; do {
 done;
 
 %patch0 -p0 -b .CVE-2009-1885
+%patch1 -p1 -b .ppc64le
 
 
 %build
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ find -name runConfigure | while read f; do
 done
 
 cd $XERCESCROOT/src/xercesc
-%ifarch alpha ppc64 s390x sparc64 x86_64
+%ifarch alpha %{power64} s390x sparc64 x86_64
 CXXFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" CFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" ./runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthreads -b64 -P %{_prefix} -C --libdir="%{_libdir}"
 %else
 CXXFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" CFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" ./runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthreads -b32 -P %{_prefix} -C --libdir="%{_libdir}"
@@ -128,6 +130,10 @@ mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir}/xercesc $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_includedir}/xercesc-2
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 22 2014 Brent Baude <baude@us.ibm.com> - 2.7.0-14
+- Changed ppc64 arch to power64 macro
+- Added xerces-c-add-ppc64le.patch
+
 * Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.0-13
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild