diff --git a/rrdtool.spec b/rrdtool.spec
index 50bc098..a8273b0 100644
--- a/rrdtool.spec
+++ b/rrdtool.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Summary: Round Robin Database Tool to store and display time-series data
 Name: rrdtool
 Version: 1.2.23
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: GPL
 Group: Applications/Databases
 URL: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/%{name}/
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ Provides: python-%{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 Python RRDtool bindings.
 %endif
 
+%ifarch ppc64
+# php bits busted on ppc64 at the moment
+%define with_php 0
+%endif
+
 %if %{with_php}
 %package php
 Summary: PHP RRDtool bindings
@@ -273,6 +278,9 @@ find examples/ -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 03 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> 1.2.23-3
+- Disable php bits on ppc64 for now, they fail to build
+
 * Thu May 03 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> 1.2.23-2
 - Add BR: perl-devel for Fedora 7 and later