diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.7.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.7.0.bb
index 03cdd28..5f1757f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.7.0.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a855fda56edf05614f099dca316d1775"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5d62c0330f1481fe2c593249192fa68ff454c19c34343978cc9ce91aa324cbf6"
 
-COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(i.86|x86_64).*-linux'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(i.86|x86_64|powerpc|ppc|powerpc64|ppc64).*-linux'
 
 inherit autotools
 
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-w"
 PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
 
 FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/${PN}/*/.debug/*"
+
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${TCLIBC}-dbg"
