diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cc01eb0d1d..5e423096ec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-08-06  Dan Williams  <dcbw@redhat.com>
+
+	Patch from Christan Chiesa <christanc@gmail.com>
+	* configure.in
+		- Tell sha1.c to use bigendian mode on PPC
+
 2006-08-04  Robert Love  <rml@novell.com>
 
 	Glib Memory Slices!
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4302ea4f44..6655d7ca6a 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -344,6 +344,11 @@ else
 	AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
 fi
 
+## Enable bigendian stuff for sha1 hash code
+if "$target_cpu" = "powerpc"
+      CPU_CFLAGS="-DWORDS_BIGENDIAN $CPU_CFLAGS"
+fi
+
 AC_OUTPUT([
 Makefile
 include/Makefile