Override default to match what other debian derivatives do. Rather than having lib being a link of lib64, do the the contrary: use lib and make lib64 a link of it. --- gcc/config/i386/t-linux64.orig 2008-10-22 03:33:48.513859286 +0200 +++ gcc/config/i386/t-linux64 2008-10-22 03:34:27.928844912 +0200 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ MULTILIB_OPTIONS = m64/m32 MULTILIB_DIRNAMES = 64 32 -MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES = ../lib64 $(if $(wildcard $(shell echo $(SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR))/../../usr/lib32),../lib32,../lib) +MULTILIB_OSDIRNAMES = ../lib $(if $(wildcard $(shell echo $(SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR))/../../usr/lib32),../lib32,../lib) LIBGCC = stmp-multilib INSTALL_LIBGCC = install-multilib