diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f12d47058..68915f1ea 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hercules,3.13)         # (the version of our software package)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)              # (the file the resulting configure script will produce)
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE()
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST()                     # (sets $host_cpu, $host_vendor, and $host_os)
+
+# Work around a bug in CPU detection on Cortex CPUs
+AS_IF([test "x$host_cpu" = 'xarmv7l'],[
+       host_cpu=$(LANG=en_US lscpu | grep "Model name" | cut -d: -f2 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+])
+AC_SUBST([host_cpu])
+
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 
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