diff --git a/srcpkgs/spice/template b/srcpkgs/spice/template
index 296b96de6ce..e272e8ffced 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/spice/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/spice/template
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ homepage="http://www.spice-space.org"
 distfiles="http://www.spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=b203b3882e06f4c7249a3150d90c84e1a90490d41ead255a3d2cede46f4a29a7
 
+if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_ENDIAN" != "le" ]; then
+	broken="SPICE server only works on little endian architectures"
+fi
+
 post_extract() {
 	sed -i 's/armv6hl/arm/g' configure	# "detects" cpu from triplet.
 }