diff -urN xine-lib-0.5.3/configure.in xine-lib-0.5.3.new/configure.in
--- xine-lib-0.5.3/configure.in	Wed Sep  5 02:40:38 2001
+++ xine-lib-0.5.3.new/configure.in	Wed Sep 12 19:19:54 2001
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
     ;;
   *)
     dnl Set the appropriate architecture define
-    case "$host_alias" in
+    case "$host" in
     i?86-* | k?-* | athlon-*) dnl catch i386,i486,i586,i686,k6,k7
 
         dnl Check for gcc cpu optimization support
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
         enable_ffmmx="yes"
 
 	if test x"$sarchopt" != "xno"; then
-	    [case "$host_alias" in
+	    [case "$host" in
 		    i386-*) # *BSD return this even on a P III #-))
                       GLOBAL_CFLAGS="$GLOBAL_CFLAGS $sarchopt=i386"
                       DEBUG_CFLAGS="$DEBUG_CFLAGS $sarchopt=i386"
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@
         ;;
 
     sparc*-*-linux-*)
-        case $host_alias in
+        case $host in
         sparc-*)
             cpu_cflags="-mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc"
             ;;