%general-entities; ]> GLIBC CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-profile --enable-kernel=2.6.32 \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc --libdir=/usr/lib \ --enable-obsolete-rpc --cache-file=config.cache The install will finish by checking that everything is correctly installed. Unfortunately, it will test for a multilib installation. On PPC64 Pure64 this means it will try to test the non-existent 32-bit loader which has a different name from the 64-bit loader (unlike on other 64-bit architectures). We fool it by creating a symlink to the real loader. ln -sv &glibc-ld-name; /lib/ld.so.1 Now we can remove this symlink. We also need to correct the /usr/bin/ldd script - if you look at this, you will see it references not only the 32-bit linker, but also /lib64 where it thinks the 64-bit linker is. The following sed will correct this: rm -v /lib/ld.so.1 sed -i.bak '/RTLDLIST/s%/ld.so.1 /lib64%%' /usr/bin/ldd Check the script to make sure the sed worked correctly, then delete the backup. rm -v /usr/bin/ldd.bak