diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 04603fbf0..135392170 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 
 - Building: Add SHARED variable to Makefile to choose if hashcat is build as static or shared binary (using libhashcat.so/hashcat.dll)
 - Building: Removed the use of RPATH on linker level
+- Building: Removed compiler option -march=native as this created problems for maintainers on various distributions
 - Building: Replaced linking of CRT_glob.o with the use of int _dowildcard
 - Commandline: Do some checks related to custom-charset options if user specifies them
 - CPU Affinity: Fixed memory leak in case invalid cpu Id was specified
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 775dd7b8a..5ffb11d39 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(UNAME),Linux)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(CFLAGS)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -I$(OPENCL_HEADERS_KHRONOS)/
-CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -march=native
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -DWITH_HWMON
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(LFLAGS)
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -lpthread -ldl
@@ -192,7 +191,6 @@ ifeq ($(UNAME),FreeBSD)
 ifndef PORTNAME
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(CFLAGS)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -I$(OPENCL_HEADERS_KHRONOS)/
-CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -march=native
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(LFLAGS)
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -lpthread
 endif
@@ -201,7 +199,6 @@ endif # FreeBSD
 ifeq ($(UNAME),Darwin)
 export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(CFLAGS)
-CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -march=native
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(LFLAGS)
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -framework OpenCL
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -lpthread
@@ -210,7 +207,6 @@ endif # Darwin
 ifeq ($(UNAME),CYGWIN)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(CFLAGS)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -I$(OPENCL_HEADERS_KHRONOS)/
-CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -march=native
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -DWITH_HWMON
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(LFLAGS)
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat
@@ -220,7 +216,6 @@ endif # CYGWIN
 ifeq ($(UNAME),MSYS2)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(CFLAGS)
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -I$(OPENCL_HEADERS_KHRONOS)/
-CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -march=native
 CFLAGS_NATIVE           += -DWITH_HWMON
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           := $(LFLAGS)
 LFLAGS_NATIVE           += -Wl,--dynamicbase -Wl,--nxcompat