diff --git a/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/arch/sparc/make.defaults b/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/arch/sparc/make.defaults
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+USE_EXPAND="ABI_SPARC"
+
+# multilib build stuff, single ABI (no multilib)
+MULTILIB_ABIS="sparc32"
+DEFAULT_ABI="sparc32"
+ABI="sparc32"
+IUSE_IMPLICIT="abi_sparc_32"
+LIBDIR_sparc32="lib"
diff --git a/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/arch/sparc/use.force b/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/arch/sparc/use.force
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# Force the flag corresponding to the default ABI
+sparc-solaris
+abi_sparc_32