--- maxima-5.9.3/src/maxima.in.setarch	2005-11-07 11:37:11.000000000 -0600
+++ maxima-5.9.3/src/maxima.in	2006-04-27 07:07:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 	exec "@SCL_NAME@" -quiet -core "$maxima_image_base.core" -eval '(cl-user::run)' -- "$arg1" "$arg2" "$arg3" "$arg4" "$arg5" "$arg6" "$arg7" "$arg8" "$arg9"
     fi
 elif [ "$MAXIMA_LISP" = "gcl" ]; then
-    exec "$maxima_image_base" -eval '(cl-user::run)' -f -- "$arg1" "$arg2" "$arg3" "$arg4" "$arg5" "$arg6" "$arg7" "$arg8" "$arg9"
+    exec "setarch" "@ARCH@" "-X" "$maxima_image_base" -eval '(cl-user::run)' -f -- "$arg1" "$arg2" "$arg3" "$arg4" "$arg5" "$arg6" "$arg7" "$arg8" "$arg9"
 elif [ "$MAXIMA_LISP" = "acl6" ]; then
 # FIXME: arguments need in a manner consistent with the way they are extracted
 #        in the function get-application-args in command-line.lisp