diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 46cce109a0..b4d3ddf64d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ export PROC
 export SOLINK
 export STRIP
 export DOWNLOAD
+export OSARCH
 
 # even though we could use '-include makeopts' here, use a wildcard
 # lookup anyway, so that make won't try to build makeopts if it doesn't
diff --git a/main/stdtime/localtime.c b/main/stdtime/localtime.c
index 491b3df95e..effb987cbe 100644
--- a/main/stdtime/localtime.c
+++ b/main/stdtime/localtime.c
@@ -1216,11 +1216,7 @@ const time_t * const	timep;
 char *buf;
 {
         struct tm tm;
-#ifdef SOLARIS
-	return asctime_r(localtime_r(timep, &tm), buf, 256);
-#else
 	return asctime_r(localtime_r(timep, &tm), buf);
-#endif
 }
 
 /*