diff --git a/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/files/mozconfig b/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/files/mozconfig
index ac3ab4f26d9..5a3519b1b1c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/files/mozconfig
+++ b/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/files/mozconfig
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ ac_add_options --disable-gconf
 ac_add_options --disable-tests
 ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
 ac_add_options --disable-updater
-ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
 ac_add_options --disable-install-strip
 ac_add_options --disable-strip
 ac_add_options --disable-profiling
diff --git a/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/template b/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/template
index 1f5f1985902..63e423c6691 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/firefox-esr/template
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ revision=5
 wrksrc="firefox-${version}esr"
 short_desc="Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
-homepage="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/"
 license="MPL-2.0, GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+homepage="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/"
 distfiles="${MOZILLA_SITE}/firefox/releases/${version}esr/source/firefox-${version}esr.source.tar.xz
  https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/ffmpeg4.patch.gz?h=firefox-esr52>ffmpeg4.patch.gz"
 checksum="c01d09658c53c1b3a496e353a24dad03b26b81d3b1d099abc26a06f81c199dd6
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ post_extract() {
 do_build() {
 	cp "${FILESDIR}/mozconfig" "${wrksrc}/.mozconfig"
 
+	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+		ppc64*) ;;
+		*) echo "ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack" >>.mozconfig;;
+	esac
+
 	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 	*-musl)
 		echo "ac_add_options --disable-jemalloc" >>.mozconfig