diff --git a/package/base/dietlibc/parse-config-9 b/package/base/dietlibc/parse-config-9
index 96a420461..8ada7e687 100644
--- a/package/base/dietlibc/parse-config-9
+++ b/package/base/dietlibc/parse-config-9
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ if [ "$pkg_dietlibc_useit" = 1 ]; then
 	echo_status "Preparing configuration to build this package with dietlibc ("${diet_dynamic_static}"ally)."
 
 	# dietlibc-sparc32 depends on -msupersparc output
-	if [ "$arch" = "sparc" -a "$ROCKCFG_SPARC_BITS" -eq 32 ] ; then
+	if [ "$arch" = "sparc" -a "$ROCKCFG_SPARC_BITS" = "32" ] ; then
 		var_append GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT " " "-mcpu=supersparc" ;
 	fi ;