diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/features/64bit-native/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/features/64bit-native/make.defaults
index 40d87abeda..6058a121a0 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/features/64bit-native/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/features/64bit-native/make.defaults
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/features/64bit-native/make.defaults,v 1.2 2008/11/14 15:43:49 darkside Exp $
 
-# We disable the symlink, since we won't be using it.
-SYMLINK_LIB="no"
+# We still need lib to be a symlink since LIBDIR is lib64
+SYMLINK_LIB="yes"
 
 USE="-gcc64"
 STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode"