--- config.h.in.orig 2006-04-27 16:50:13.000000000 -0700 +++ config.h.in 2006-04-27 16:53:12.000000000 -0700 @@ -1079,7 +1079,11 @@ /* Define to 1 if your processor stores words with the most significant byte first (like Motorola and SPARC, unlike Intel and VAX). */ -#undef WORDS_BIGENDIAN +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__ +#define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 1 +#else +/* #undef WORDS_BIGENDIAN */ +#endif /* Define to 1 if on AIX 3. System headers sometimes define this.