%general-entities; %patches-entities; ]> Zlib N32 CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --shared --libdir=/lib32 The previous command installed a .so file in /lib32. We will remove it and relink it into /usr/lib32: rm /lib32/libz.so ln -sf ../../lib32/libz.so.&zlib-version; /usr/lib32/libz.so make clean CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" ./configure \ --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 make chmod 644 /usr/lib32/libz.a