diff --git a/libraries/perl-extutils-pkgconfig/perl-extutils-pkgconfig.SlackBuild b/libraries/perl-extutils-pkgconfig/perl-extutils-pkgconfig.SlackBuild
index 43f7dc8557..44c4795069 100644
--- a/libraries/perl-extutils-pkgconfig/perl-extutils-pkgconfig.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/perl-extutils-pkgconfig/perl-extutils-pkgconfig.SlackBuild
@@ -25,10 +25,19 @@
 PRGNAM=perl-extutils-pkgconfig
 SRCNAM=ExtUtils-PkgConfig
 VERSION=1.08
-ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
+# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
 CWD=$(pwd)
 TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM