diff --git a/harmony/redis/APKBUILD b/harmony/redis/APKBUILD
index 3ced317960cc025769baca23cfb9fdb35e7645c4..fc8ea8426f47d257af69fd6e1e65b603080ec9a5 100644
--- a/harmony/redis/APKBUILD
+++ b/harmony/redis/APKBUILD
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ install="redis.pre-install"
 pkgusers="redis"
 pkggroups="redis"
 source="http://download.redis.io/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	fix-ppc-atomics.patch
 	posix-runtest.patch
 	redis.initd
 	redis.logrotate
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ build() {
 	make PREFIX=/usr \
 		INSTALL_BIN="$pkgdir"/usr/bin \
 		MALLOC=libc \
+		FINAL_LIBS="-latomic " \
 		all
 }
 
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ package() {
 }
 
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+f768acea3e1868dbf0596085640c83e58d899860d7d647b0965fa858844c494d0a49b229fb417456d83f3e2690e5450950c31e0fa40529df85a9cde38d8981c4  fix-ppc-atomics.patch
 856ae98e9e8670801827c3bd793dc14ed2c62c37365f8d04b452d7e1ab97300a0bf18c59b52ea686c2689d53aeed8e29e2c55207d3d4fb1fd8fc7fc820f33157  posix-runtest.patch
 91b663f802aea9a473195940d3bf2ce3ca2af4e5b6e61a2d28ebbfe502ef2c764b574b7e87c49e60345d1a5d6b73d12920924c93b26be110c2ce824023347b6f  redis.initd
 6d17d169b40a7e23a0a2894eff0f3e2fe8e4461b36f2a9d45468f0abd84ea1035d679b4c0a34029bce093147f9c7bb697e843c113c17769d38c934d4a78a5848  redis.logrotate
diff --git a/harmony/redis/fix-ppc-atomics.patch b/harmony/redis/fix-ppc-atomics.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0263bb5319d9ec1c33b2e134726e7ef877d0f3a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/harmony/redis/fix-ppc-atomics.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- redis-4.0.2/src/Makefile.old	2017-09-21 09:12:52.000000000 -0500
++++ redis-4.0.2/src/Makefile	2018-05-26 18:45:23.494413590 -0500
+@@ -109,6 +109,10 @@
+ # Include paths to dependencies
+ FINAL_CFLAGS+= -I../deps/hiredis -I../deps/linenoise -I../deps/lua/src
+ 
++ifeq ($(uname_M),ppc)
++	FINAL_LIBS+= -latomic
++endif
++
+ ifeq ($(MALLOC),tcmalloc)
+ 	FINAL_CFLAGS+= -DUSE_TCMALLOC
+ 	FINAL_LIBS+= -ltcmalloc