diff --git a/repos/libports/src/test/memcpy/linux/Makefile b/repos/libports/src/test/memcpy/linux/Makefile
index ec714bf749..3cf06d1511 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/test/memcpy/linux/Makefile
+++ b/repos/libports/src/test/memcpy/linux/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 INC_DIR = $(PWD)/..
 
+ifneq (,$(findstring arm-,$(shell gcc -dumpmachine)))
+	CC_MARCH = -marm
+else
+	CC_MARCH =
+endif
+
 memcpy: main.cc $(INC_DIR)/memcpy.h
-	g++ -I$(INC_DIR) -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Weffc++ -std=gnu++11 $< -o $@
+	g++ $(CC_MARCH) -I$(INC_DIR) -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Weffc++ -std=gnu++11 $< -o $@
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *~ memcpy