diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0de7af810..e95431249 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-06-29  Robert Millan  <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com>
+
+	Fix build on Debian / sparc.
+
+	* configure.ac: Recognize `sparc' target_cpu (as sparc64).
+
 2009-06-28  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
 	* kern/i386/qemu/mmap.c (grub_machine_mmap_iterate): Use cast to
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cf1b197a5..8b12c582c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 AC_ARG_PROGRAM
 
 case "$target_cpu" in
-  i[[3456]]86) target_cpu=i386 ;;
+  i[[3456]]86)	target_cpu=i386 ;;
+  sparc)	target_cpu=sparc64 ;;
 esac
 
 # Specify the platform (such as firmware).