diff --git a/findutils.spec b/findutils.spec
index 04eb0ca..a384132 100644
--- a/findutils.spec
+++ b/findutils.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs)
 Name: findutils
 Version: 4.6.0
-Release: 11%{?dist}
+Release: 12%{?dist}
 Epoch: 1
 License: GPLv3+
 Group: Applications/File
@@ -95,11 +95,6 @@ git commit -q -m "after invocation of autoreconf"
 # prevent test-isinf from failing with gcc-5.3.1 on ppc64le (#1294016)
 export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D__SUPPORT_SNAN__"
 
-%ifarch ppc64le
-# avoid using broken memcmp() code that gcc generates on ppc64le (#1417753)
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fno-builtin-memcmp"
-%endif
-
 mkdir build
 cd build
 ln -s ../configure
@@ -141,6 +136,9 @@ fi
 %{_infodir}/find-maint.info.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 02 2017 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 1:4.6.0-12
+- drop ppc64le workaround no longer needed (#1417753)
+
 * Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1:4.6.0-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild