diff --git a/biology/hhsuite/Makefile b/biology/hhsuite/Makefile
index fc24fac30c34..a5eadbd193e2 100644
--- a/biology/hhsuite/Makefile
+++ b/biology/hhsuite/Makefile
@@ -1,32 +1,38 @@
 PORTNAME=	hhsuite
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	3.3.0
 CATEGORIES=	biology science
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Remote protein homology detection suite
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libmpi.so:net/openmpi
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang cmake perl5 python shebangfix
 SHEBANG_GLOB=	*.pl *.py
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	soedinglab
 GH_PROJECT=	hh-suite
 
 LDFLAGS+=	-Wl,-rpath,${LOCALBASE}/mpi/openmpi/lib -L${LOCALBASE}/mpi/openmpi/lib -lmpi # force linking to openmpi, and not to mpich
 
 .include <bsd.port.options.mk>
 
 .if ${ARCH} == aarch64
 CMAKE_ON=	HAVE_ARM8
 .elif ${ARCH} == amd64 || ${ARCH} == i386
 CMAKE_ON=	HAVE_SSE2
 .elif ${ARCH:Mpowerpc64*}
 CMAKE_ON=	HAVE_POWER8
 .endif
 
+.if ${ARCH} == powerpc
+PLIST_SUB+=	OPENMP="@comment "
+.else
+PLIST_SUB+=	OPENMP=""
+.endif
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/biology/hhsuite/pkg-plist b/biology/hhsuite/pkg-plist
index c0088e8470e1..7b43c4fe3173 100644
--- a/biology/hhsuite/pkg-plist
+++ b/biology/hhsuite/pkg-plist
@@ -1,59 +1,59 @@
 bin/a3m_database_extract
 bin/a3m_database_filter
 bin/a3m_database_reduce
 bin/a3m_extract
 bin/a3m_reduce
 bin/cstranslate
 bin/cstranslate_mpi
 bin/ffindex_apply
 bin/ffindex_apply_mpi
 bin/ffindex_build
 bin/ffindex_from_fasta
 bin/ffindex_from_fasta_with_split
 bin/ffindex_get
 bin/ffindex_modify
 bin/ffindex_order
 bin/ffindex_reduce
 bin/ffindex_unpack
 bin/hhalign
 bin/hhalign_mpi
-bin/hhalign_omp
+%%OPENMP%%bin/hhalign_omp
 bin/hhblits
-bin/hhblits_ca3m
+%%OPENMP%%bin/hhblits_ca3m
 bin/hhblits_mpi
-bin/hhblits_omp
+%%OPENMP%%bin/hhblits_omp
 bin/hhconsensus
 bin/hhfilter
 bin/hhmake
 bin/hhsearch
 bin/hhsearch_mpi
-bin/hhsearch_omp
+%%OPENMP%%bin/hhsearch_omp
 %%DATADIR%%/data/context_data.crf
 %%DATADIR%%/data/context_data.lib
 %%DATADIR%%/data/cs219.lib
 %%DATADIR%%/data/do_not_delete
 %%DATADIR%%/data/do_not_delete.phr
 %%DATADIR%%/data/do_not_delete.pin
 %%DATADIR%%/data/do_not_delete.psq
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/Align.pm
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/HHPaths.pm
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/a3m.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/addss.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/check_a3m.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/cif2fasta.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/create_profile_from_hhm.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/create_profile_from_hmmer.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/ffindex.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/get_a3m_size.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/hh_reader.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/hhmakemodel.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/hhmakemodel.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/hhsuitedb.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/mergeali.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/multithread.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/pdb2fasta.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/pdbfilter.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/pdbfilter.py
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/reformat.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/renumberpdb.pl
 %%DATADIR%%/scripts/splitfasta.pl