diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 946adde0ff9..0fef4f8c3c6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ With the above in working order, simply execute
 ```bash
 $ ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk/ bash cppbuild.sh [-platform <name>] <install | clean> [projects]
 ```
-where possible platform names are: `android-arm`, `android-x86`, `linux-x86`, `linux-x86_64`, `macosx-x86_64`, `windows-x86`, `windows-x86_64`, etc. (The `ANDROID_NDK` variable is required only for Android builds.) Please note that the scripts download source archives from appropriate sites as necessary.
+where possible platform names are: `android-arm`, `android-x86`, `linux-x86`, `linux-x86_64`, `linux-arm`, `macosx-x86_64`, `windows-x86`, `windows-x86_64`, etc. (The `ANDROID_NDK` variable is required only for Android builds.) Please note that the scripts download source archives from appropriate sites as necessary.
 
 To compile binaries for an Android device with no FPU, first make sure this is what you want. Without FPU, the performance of either OpenCV or FFmpeg is bound to be unacceptable. If you still wish to continue down that road, then replace "armeabi-v7a" by "armeabi" and "-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfpv3-d16" with "-march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -msoft-float", inside various files.
 
diff --git a/opencv/cppbuild.sh b/opencv/cppbuild.sh
index d8d70a52d0f..36f57e08664 100755
--- a/opencv/cppbuild.sh
+++ b/opencv/cppbuild.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ case $PLATFORM in
         make -j4
         make install/strip
         ;;
+    linux-arm)
+        CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-"$OLDCC" CXX=arm-linux-gnueabi-"$OLDCXX" CMAKE_C_COMPILER=$CC CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$CXX $CMAKE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.. -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_JASPER=ON -DBUILD_JPEG=ON -DBUILD_WEBP=ON -DBUILD_OPENEXR=ON -DBUILD_PNG=ON -DBUILD_TIFF=ON -DBUILD_ZLIB=ON -DBUILD_opencv_java=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_python2=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_python3=OFF -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF -DWITH_1394=OFF -DWITH_FFMPEG=OFF -DWITH_GSTREAMER=OFF -DWITH_GTK=OFF -DWITH_OPENMP=OFF -DWITH_CUDA=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF ${BUILD_CONTRIB_X} -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../opencv_contrib-$OPENCV_VERSION/modules
+        make -j4
+        make install
+        ;;
     macosx-*)
         patch -Np1 < ../../../opencv-$OPENCV_VERSION-macosx.patch
         $CMAKE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.. -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_JASPER=ON -DBUILD_JPEG=ON -DBUILD_WEBP=ON -DBUILD_OPENEXR=ON -DBUILD_PNG=ON -DBUILD_TIFF=ON -DBUILD_ZLIB=ON -DBUILD_opencv_java=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_python2=OFF -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF -DWITH_1394=OFF -DWITH_FFMPEG=OFF -DWITH_GSTREAMER=OFF -DWITH_OPENMP=OFF -DWITH_CUDA=OFF -DWITH_OPENCL=OFF -DWITH_IPP=OFF ${BUILD_CONTRIB_X} -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../opencv_contrib-$OPENCV_VERSION/modules