diff --git a/package/jsaw/scribus/math.patch b/package/jsaw/scribus/math.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26bd19253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/jsaw/scribus/math.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+The usual pow, ... builtin for x86 - but not for many others.
+
+  - Rene Rebe <rene@rocklinux.org>
+
+--- ./scribus/scribusview.cpp.vanilla	2004-06-12 15:23:03.058045128 +0200
++++ ./scribus/scribusview.cpp	2004-06-12 15:23:18.707666024 +0200
+@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ #include "pageback.h"
++#include <math.h>
+ #include <qcolor.h>
+ #include <qfont.h>
+ #include <qfontmetrics.h>
+--- ./scribus/scribus.cpp.vanilla	2004-06-12 15:25:20.734115184 +0200
++++ ./scribus/scribus.cpp	2004-06-12 15:25:47.676019392 +0200
+@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
+ #include <qvbox.h>
+ #include <cstdio>
+ #include <cstdlib>
++#include <math.h>
++
+ #include <dlfcn.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <iostream>
diff --git a/package/jsaw/scribus/scribus.desc b/package/jsaw/scribus/scribus.desc
index 45fbd19fe..ef3588a87 100644
--- a/package/jsaw/scribus/scribus.desc
+++ b/package/jsaw/scribus/scribus.desc
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.1.6
+[V] 1.1.7
 [P] X -----5---9 216.500
 
-[D] 747880069 scribus-1.1.6.tar.gz http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/downloads/
+[D] 3447531109 scribus-1.1.7.tar.gz http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/downloads/