diff --git a/srcpkgs/tdb/files/cross-32bit.answers b/srcpkgs/tdb/files/cross-32bit.answers
index 6262d36125f..c661c19441d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tdb/files/cross-32bit.answers
+++ b/srcpkgs/tdb/files/cross-32bit.answers
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-Checking uname sysname type: OK
-Checking uname machine type: OK
-Checking uname release type: OK
-Checking uname version type: OK
-Checking simple C program: OK
-building library support: OK
-Checking for large file support: OK
-Checking for -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64: OK
-Checking for WORDS_BIGENDIAN: OK
+Checking uname sysname type: "Linux"
+Checking uname machine type: "@@XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE@@"
+Checking uname release type: "ok"
+Checking uname version type: "ok"
+Checking simple C program: "ok"
+building library support: "ok"
+Checking for large file support: "ok"
+Checking for -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64: "ok"
+Checking for WORDS_BIGENDIAN: "ok"
 Checking size of char: "1"
 Checking size of int: "4"
 Checking size of long long: "4"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tdb/template b/srcpkgs/tdb/template
index 31b8697b316..8c37ada5b73 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tdb/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tdb/template
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://tdb.samba.org/"
 distfiles="http://samba.org/ftp/tdb/tdb-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=f585cd53b49cb1f11f4c5aec404d0daa0c9bc5568790b09f5eb3b79315511729
-nocross=yes
 
 do_configure() {
 	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
 		cp ${FILESDIR}/cross-32bit.answers .
+		sed -i "s,@@XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE@@,$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE,g" cross-32bit.answers
 		_args="--cross-compile --hostcc=cc --cross-answers=cross-32bit.answers"
 	fi
 	./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-python ${_args}