to run natively on an aarch64 machine is done like this: make CONFIGURE_ARGS='--build=x86_64-redhat-linux --target=aarch64-redhat-linux --host=aarch64-redhat-linux' \ LIBARCH=aarch64 ARCH=aarch64 BUILD_AARCH64=true CC=aarch64-redhat-linux-gcc Who would have guessed? :-) Andrew.