diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/kernel-2.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
index bdeabb9fc2..7b77b64de9 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
@@ -281,23 +281,20 @@
 # If you do change them, there is a chance that we will not fix resulting bugs;
 # that of course does not mean we're not willing to help.
 
-inherit estack multiprocessing toolchain-funcs
+# Added by Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>
+# This is an ugly hack to get around an issue with a 32-bit userland on ppc64.
+# I will remove it when I come up with something more reasonable.
+# Alfred Persson Forsberg <cat@catcream.org>
+# Moved this above inherit as crossdev.eclass uses CHOST internally.
+[[ ${PROFILE_ARCH} == ppc64 ]] && CHOST="powerpc64-${CHOST#*-}"
+
+inherit crossdev estack multiprocessing toolchain-funcs
 
 case ${EAPI} in
 	7|8) ;;
 	*) die "${ECLASS}: EAPI ${EAPI:-0} not supported" ;;
 esac
 
-# Added by Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>
-# This is an ugly hack to get around an issue with a 32-bit userland on ppc64.
-# I will remove it when I come up with something more reasonable.
-[[ ${PROFILE_ARCH} == ppc64 ]] && CHOST="powerpc64-${CHOST#*-}"
-
-export CTARGET=${CTARGET:-${CHOST}}
-if [[ ${CTARGET} == ${CHOST} && ${CATEGORY/cross-} != ${CATEGORY} ]]; then
-	export CTARGET=${CATEGORY/cross-}
-fi
-
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.kernel.org/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel ${HOMEPAGE}"
 : "${LICENSE:="GPL-2"}"