diff --git a/makefile-dependency-fix.patch b/makefile-dependency-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3869f5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefile-dependency-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 076dd9679bf2e77f1df219287f0eb42ea36b7371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Aleksandar Fabijanic <aleks-f@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 20:36:12 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Build parallelization issues #1730
+
+---
+ Makefile | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 31f2d4ced..668d3e6be 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Data-libexec:  Foundation-libexec
+ Data-tests: Data-libexec cppunit
+ 	$(MAKE) -C $(POCO_BASE)/Data/testsuite
+ 	
+-Data-samples: Data-libexec  Data-libexec Data/SQLite-libexec
++Data-samples: Data-libexec  Data-libexec Data/SQLite-libexec Net-libexec
+ 	$(MAKE) -C $(POCO_BASE)/Data/samples
+ 
+ Data-clean:
diff --git a/poco.spec b/poco.spec
index 162f589..ad674a9 100644
--- a/poco.spec
+++ b/poco.spec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 Name:             poco
 Version:          %{poco_src_version}
-Release:          2%{?dist}
+Release:          3%{?dist}
 Summary:          C++ class libraries for network-centric applications
 
 Group:            Development/Libraries
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Patch1:           disable-tests.patch
 Patch2:           sqlite-no-busy-snapshot.patch
 # Add ignored-tests patches 
 Patch3:           ignored-tests.patch
+# Fix WebNotifier build failure due to Makefile dependency issues
+Patch4:           makefile-dependency-fix.patch
 
 BuildRequires:    openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:    libiodbc-devel
@@ -460,6 +462,9 @@ HTML format.
 %doc README NEWS LICENSE CONTRIBUTORS CHANGELOG doc/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 25 2017 Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 1.7.8p2-3
+- Add patch from upstream to resolve s390x build failures
+
 * Tue May 23 2017 Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 1.7.8p2-2
 - Add openssl-devel as a dependency of poco-devel (#1454462)