diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4d2eafec..54874252 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ llvm-toolchain-9 (1:9.0.1-15) unstable; urgency=medium
     feature sets a -ffile-prefix-map flag, which is only
     supported in clang-10. (Closes: #972751).
     Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian for the patch
+  * Don't use gold on ppc64el. It fails to build in that case
+    (Closes: #972317)
 
  -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:14:16 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9fc9e675..ab8eb412 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ endif
 # 	CMAKE_EXTRA += -DLLVM_ENABLE_LLD=ON
 # endif
 
-BINUTILS_GOLD_ARCHS := amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64 ppc64el x32 s390x hurd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
+BINUTILS_GOLD_ARCHS := amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64 x32 s390x hurd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
 ifeq ($(shell dpkg --compare-versions $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}' binutils) ge 2.23.1-1~exp3 ; echo $$?),0)
 ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),$(BINUTILS_GOLD_ARCHS)))
 # -fused-ld=gold enables the gold linker (but is not supported by all archs / distro)