diff --git a/src/build b/src/build
index e1b83df907bb003e2f4f0ca7ce510af922f479e9..4cce793f8578c9d30885e4a08c5e8400a64dd443 100644
--- a/src/build
+++ b/src/build
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ fi
 
 ls template
 TEMPLATE=generic
+#
+#     Use the file template/.similar to find an appropriate file
+#     We get the architecture from the config.guess script.
+#
+CONFIG=`./config.guess`
+GUESS=`grep $CONFIG template/.similar 2>/dev/null`
+if [ $GUESS ]; then
+      TEMPLATE=`echo $GUESS | sed 's/.*=//'`
+fi
+
 $ECHO_N "Appropriate template file [$TEMPLATE]: $ECHO_C"
 read a
 if [ "$a." = " ." ]
diff --git a/src/template/.similar b/src/template/.similar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..53176f5a85e5e94e300fbd8ac1280147ddb1a997
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/template/.similar
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+sparc-sun-solaris2.5=sparc_solaris-gcc
+i386-unknown-freebsd3.0=freebsd