diff --git a/extra/libvpx/PKGBUILD b/extra/libvpx/PKGBUILD
index 9e0c6680e..5ea85e2a1 100644
--- a/extra/libvpx/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/libvpx/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 
 # ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
 #  - configure option --enable-shared isn't supported for us
-
-plugrel=1
+#  - patch to revert stupidity of those who think arm is always cross-compiled
 
 pkgname=libvpx
 pkgver=1.2.0
@@ -15,11 +14,15 @@ url="http://www.webmproject.org/"
 license=('BSD')
 depends=('glibc')
 makedepends=('yasm')
-source=(http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/other/libvpx/libvpx-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig})
-sha1sums=('75cd953cf2db694412569272803fbdc73f2b599f')
+source=(http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/other/libvpx/libvpx-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig}
+        no-cross.patch)
+sha1sums=('75cd953cf2db694412569272803fbdc73f2b599f'
+          'SKIP'
+          'de7c8bb121d08f719f5cbbe94e7e37c24f1090b8')
 
 build() {
     cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+    patch -p1 -i ../no-cross.patch
     ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vp8 \
         --enable-postproc \
         --enable-pic \