diff --git a/network/thttpd/patches/thttpd-2.25b-glibc-2.10.patch b/network/thttpd/patches/thttpd-2.25b-glibc-2.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c97227827e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/network/thttpd/patches/thttpd-2.25b-glibc-2.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff -ur thttpd-2.25b.orig/extras/htpasswd.c thttpd-2.25b/extras/htpasswd.c
+--- thttpd-2.25b.orig/extras/htpasswd.c	2001-12-19 02:08:08.000000000 +0200
++++ thttpd-2.25b/extras/htpasswd.c	2009-08-09 16:40:06.000000000 +0300
+@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
+     while((line[y++] = line[x++]));
+ }
+ 
+-static int getline(char *s, int n, FILE *f) {
++static int get_line(char *s, int n, FILE *f) {
+     register int i=0;
+ 
+     while(1) {
+@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
+     strcpy(user,argv[2]);
+ 
+     found = 0;
+-    while(!(getline(line,MAX_STRING_LEN,f))) {
++    while(!(get_line(line,MAX_STRING_LEN,f))) {
+         if(found || (line[0] == '#') || (!line[0])) {
+             putline(tfp,line);
+             continue;
diff --git a/network/thttpd/thttpd.SlackBuild b/network/thttpd/thttpd.SlackBuild
index cdfe75f307..7ec6f2fb55 100644
--- a/network/thttpd/thttpd.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/thttpd/thttpd.SlackBuild
@@ -25,10 +25,19 @@
 
 PRGNAM=thttpd
 VERSION=${VERSION:-2.25b}
-ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
+# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) export ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) export ARCH=arm ;;
+    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
+       *) export ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
 CWD=$(pwd)
 TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
@@ -43,6 +52,9 @@ elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
   LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
 # Set the directory to serve through HTTP
@@ -67,6 +79,7 @@ find . \
 cat $CWD/patches/additional-input-validation-httpd.c.diff | patch -p1
 cat $CWD/patches/fix-buffer-overflow.diff | patch -p1
 cat $CWD/patches/fix-insecure-tmp-creation-CVE-2005-3124.diff | patch -p1
+cat $CWD/patches/thttpd-2.25b-glibc-2.10.patch | patch -p1
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \