diff --git a/aports/main/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD b/aports/main/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
index d3263c47..f42d95be 100644
--- a/aports/main/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
+++ b/aports/main/qt5-qtdeclarative/APKBUILD
@@ -1,29 +1,42 @@
-# Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=qt5-qtdeclarative
 _pkgname=${pkgname/qt5-//}-opensource-src
-pkgver=5.9.3
-_ver=${pkgver/_p/-}
+pkgver=9999
+_pkgver=5.9.3
+_ver=${_pkgver/_p/-}
 _ver=${_ver/_/-}
 _ver=${_ver/beta0/beta}
 _ver=${_ver/rc0/rc}
 _V=${_ver/rc/RC}
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="Qt5 - QtDeclarative component"
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="Qt5 - QtDeclarative component (#878: armhf is armv7)"
 url="http://qt-project.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions"
 makedepends="qt5-qtbase-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev"
 
-case $pkgver in
+case $_pkgver in
 *_beta*|*_rc*) _rel=development_releases;;
 *) _rel=official_releases;;
 esac
-source="http://download.qt-project.org/$_rel/qt/${pkgver%.*}/$_ver/submodules/$_pkgname-$_V.tar.xz"
+source="http://download.qt-project.org/$_rel/qt/${_pkgver%.*}/$_ver/submodules/$_pkgname-$_V.tar.xz"
 
 _qt5_prefix=/usr/lib/qt5
 builddir="$srcdir"/$_pkgname-${_V%-*}
 
+prepare() {
+	default_prepare
+	# Compile for armv7 instead of armhf (armv6), so the JIT compiler
+	# works. The non-JIT version is slow and broken (#878).
+	if [ "$CARCH" == "armhf" ]; then
+		{
+			echo 'QMAKE_CLAGS="-mthumb-interwork -mthumb -march=armv7"'
+			echo 'QMAKE_CXXFLAGS="-mthumb-interwork -mthumb -march=armv7"'
+		} >> "$builddir"/src/qml/qml.pro
+		msg "QML will be compiled for armv7 instead of armhf (armv6) (#878)!"
+	fi
+}
+
 build() {
 	cd "$builddir"
 	qmake-qt5 && make