Error building 32 bit on 64 bit linux system

All,
I am trying to build 8.2.5, forcing to a 32 bit build on a 64 bit
system. I have set CFLAGS=-m32, and I run the configure and make/make
install as follows:

setarch i386 ./configure
setarch i386 make
setarch i386 make install

However, I get the following error (using timezone for example):

$ make
gcc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
-I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o localtime.o localtime.c
gcc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
-I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o strftime.o strftime.c
gcc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
-I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o pgtz.o pgtz.c
/usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o localtime.o strftime.o pgtz.o
/usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386
(localtime.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (SUBSYS.o) is not supported
make: *** [SUBSYS.o] Error 1

Funny thing is, there is no SUBSYS.o in my current directory. If I build
from the top, I see this same error in each dirctory/makefile where a
SUBSYS.o is linked with. If I search my build tree after a top-down
build, I do not see any SUBSYS.O files at all. Where is this SUBSYS.o
getting created, and why isn't it being created as a 32 bit file instead
of 64 bit?

Doug Knight
WSI Corp
Andover, MA, USA