diff --git a/textproc/bibtex2html/Makefile b/textproc/bibtex2html/Makefile
index c896a331cbc0..34f097072d18 100644
--- a/textproc/bibtex2html/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/bibtex2html/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	bibtex2html
 PORTVERSION=	1.99
 PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	textproc print
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/bibtex2html/
 
 MAINTAINER=	gerald@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Tools for searching BibTeX and translating from BibTeX to HTML
 WWW=		https://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	ocaml:lang/ocaml
 
 USES=		gmake perl5
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/aux2bib bin/bib2bib bin/bibtex2html \
 		share/man/man1/bibtex2html.1.gz share/man/man1/bib2bib.1.gz share/man/man1/aux2bib.1.gz
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	PDFDOCS
 
 PDFDOCS_DESC=	${DOCS_DESC}
 
 PDFDOCS_BROKEN=	pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file cm-super-t1.enc): cannot open encoding file for r
 PDFDOCS_BUILD_DEPENDS=	hevea:textproc/hevea
 PDFDOCS_USES=	tex
 PDFDOCS_USE=	TEX=latex:build
 PDFDOCS_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	doc
 PDFDOCS_INSTALL_TARGET=	install install-doc
 
+.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
+
+.if ${ARCH} == powerpc
+USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+.endif
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>