%general-entities; ]> We will need to setup target specific flags for the compiler and linkers. export BUILD32="-m32" export BUILD64="-m64" You will need to set your host target triplet for 32 bit: export LFS_TARGET32="sparcv9-unknown-linux-gnu" To prevent errors when you come back to your build, we will export these variables to prevent any build issues in the future: echo export BUILD32=\""${BUILD32}\"" >> ~/.bash_profile echo export BUILD64=\""${BUILD64}\"" >> ~/.bash_profile echo export LFS_TARGET32=\""${LFS_TARGET32}\"" >> ~/.bash_profile