diff --git a/profiles/arch/ia64/make.defaults b/profiles/arch/ia64/make.defaults
index dbfa5efa21343..0f0509dd7730f 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/ia64/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/arch/ia64/make.defaults
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
 FFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
 FCFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
 
+# Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> (3 Jun 2017)
+# Enable USE=libtirpc by default, to ease dependency resolution during
+# the stabilization of glibc-2.26. Bug 657148
+USE="libtirpc"
+
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (01 Jul 2014)
 # Set ABI & DEFAULT_ABI consistently with ${ARCH}, to make ebuild
 # checks simpler.