%general-entities; ]> E2fsprogs boot Make sure the libraries get installed to /tools/lib64: chmod 0755 configure cp configure{,.orig} sed -e "/libdir=.*\/lib/s@/lib@/lib64@g" configure.orig > configure When cross-compiling configure cannot determine sizes and assumes short=2, int=4, long=4, long long=8. This is not correct for PowerPC64. Adjust the values with: echo "ac_cv_sizeof_long=8" > config.cache CC="${CC} ${BUILD64}" ../configure --prefix=/tools \ --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms \ --host=${LFS_TARGET} --cache-file=config.cache make CC="${CC} ${BUILD64}"