diff --git a/package/wavpack/wavpack.hash b/package/wavpack/wavpack.hash
index 18dcfbc827..f15afc2524 100644
--- a/package/wavpack/wavpack.hash
+++ b/package/wavpack/wavpack.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # locally computed hash
-sha256 2cade379b0aba99fbc4e442ccc6dac6c609f6212e46516a083e24c8c364430a4 wavpack-4.70.0.tar.bz2
+sha256 7d31b34166c33c3109b45c6e4579b472fd05e3ee8ec6d728352961c5cdd1d6b0  wavpack-4.75.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/wavpack/wavpack.mk b/package/wavpack/wavpack.mk
index c9bae47a41..02184e331b 100644
--- a/package/wavpack/wavpack.mk
+++ b/package/wavpack/wavpack.mk
@@ -4,14 +4,22 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-WAVPACK_VERSION = 4.70.0
+WAVPACK_VERSION = 4.75.2
 WAVPACK_SITE = http://www.wavpack.com
 WAVPACK_SOURCE = wavpack-$(WAVPACK_VERSION).tar.bz2
 WAVPACK_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-# configure not up to date
-WAVPACK_AUTORECONF = YES
 WAVPACK_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE),,libiconv)
 WAVPACK_LICENSE = BSD-3c
 WAVPACK_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
+# WavPack "autodetects" CPU type to enable ASM code. However, the assembly code
+# for ARM is written for ARMv7 only and building WavPack for an ARM-non-v7
+# architecture will fail. We explicitly enable ASM for the supported
+# architectures x86, x64 and ARMv7 and disable it for all others.
+ifeq ($(BR2_i386)$(BR2_x86_64)$(BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV7A),y)
+WAVPACK_CONF_OPTS += --enable-asm
+else
+WAVPACK_CONF_OPTS += --disable-asm
+endif
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))