diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross.inc
index 982224f..f07907e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross.inc
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} \
                 --disable-werror \
                 --disable-nls \
                 --enable-poison-system-directories \
-		${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--enable-gold=default', '', d)}"
+                ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--enable-gold=default', '', d)} \
+                ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)}"
 
 do_install () {
 	oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
index 58fee85..51e4257 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ B = "${S}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--program-prefix=${TARGET_PREFIX} \
                 --enable-install-libbfd \
-                --enable-shared"
+                --enable-shared \
+                ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native = "--enable-target=all --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-install-libbfd"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
index 69e0213..7ec2f7e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ def get_gcc_mips_plt_setting(bb, d):
         return "--with-mips-plt"
     return ""
 
+def get_gcc_multiarch_setting(bb, d):
+    if 'multiarch' in bb.data.getVar('DISTRO_FEATURES',d,1).split() :
+        if bb.data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', d, 1) in [ 'i586', 'i686' ] :
+            return "--enable-targets=all"
+        if bb.data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', d, 1) in [ 'powerpc' ] :
+            return "--enable-targets=powerpc64"
+        if bb.data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', d, 1) in [ 'sparc' ] :
+            return "--enable-targets=all"
+    return ""
+
 # We really need HOST_SYS here for some packages and TARGET_SYS for others.
 # For now, libgcc is most important so we fix for that - RP.
 SHLIBSDIR = "${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/shlibs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
index ae23e8e..d014980 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "${@['--enable-clocale=generic', ''][d.getVar('USE_NLS', 1) != 'n
                 ${EXTRA_OECONF_BASE} \
                 ${EXTRA_OECONF_FPU} \
                 ${EXTRA_OECONF_PATHS} \
-                ${@get_gcc_mips_plt_setting(bb, d)}"
+                ${@get_gcc_mips_plt_setting(bb, d)} \
+                ${@get_gcc_multiarch_setting(bb, d)}"
 
 # Build uclibc compilers without cxa_atexit support
 EXTRA_OECONF_append_linux               = " --enable-__cxa_atexit"