diff --git a/base/glibc/glibc.conf b/base/glibc/glibc.conf
index 0c4b54d3a..9a73d79ed 100644
--- a/base/glibc/glibc.conf
+++ b/base/glibc/glibc.conf
@@ -265,3 +265,8 @@ fi
 hook_add prepatch 3 "glibc_prepatch"
 hook_add postmake 5 "glibc_postmake"
 
+# workaround for failing builds when building for i686 cpu family
+case $arch_machine in
+	i686) var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--disable-multi-arch" ;;
+esac
+