diff --git a/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.hardfp b/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.hardfp
index a0a91971..7fcebb20 100644
--- a/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.hardfp
+++ b/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.hardfp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CHOST="armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi"
 ### COMMON PART
 #################################################
 # Portage configuration
-ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm"
+ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm ~arm"
 FEATURES="ccache distcc distcc-pump parallel-fetch protect-owned compressdebug splitdebug"
 MAKEOPTS="-j4 -s"
 CCACHE_SIZE="5G"
diff --git a/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.softfp b/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.softfp
index 04137e7d..22744645 100644
--- a/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.softfp
+++ b/conf/armv7l/portage/make.conf.softfp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CHOST="armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabi"
 ### COMMON PART
 #################################################
 # Portage configuration
-ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm"
+ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm ~arm"
 FEATURES="ccache distcc distcc-pump parallel-fetch protect-owned compressdebug splitdebug"
 MAKEOPTS="-j4 -s"
 CCACHE_SIZE="5G"