diff --git a/autoconf_share/variants.LIIFEN b/autoconf_share/variants.LIIFEN
index 7f2941a3ae77541a8681f6b40b82c638006040b9..841bc45e85d4ed3111a7bab640736406bddb019c 100644
--- a/autoconf_share/variants.LIIFEN
+++ b/autoconf_share/variants.LIIFEN
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-gnu.compiler.conf: CXX="$CCACHE /usr/bin/g++"
+gnu64.compiler.conf: CXX="$CCACHE /usr/bin/g++"
 
 mpich.var:                --with-mpich=/opt/mpich/ch-p4
 
diff --git a/autoconf_share/variants.liifen b/autoconf_share/variants.liifen
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ce4da5c981f0775b684f8289ca0ff53178e2f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/autoconf_share/variants.liifen
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+gnu.compiler.conf: CXX="$CCACHE /usr/bin/g++"
+gnu64.compiler.conf: CXX="$CCACHE /usr/bin/g++"
+
+mpich.var:                --with-mpich=/opt/mpich/ch-p4
+openmpi.var:              --with-mpich=/usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.1b1-1
+
+openmpi.variant.conf:	  $(standard) $(openmpi)
+openmpi-opt.variant.conf: $(standard) $(openmpi) $(optimize)
+
+lofar_root.var:		 
diff --git a/autoconf_share/variants.listfen b/autoconf_share/variants.listfen
index ae6236da68f37b7fe9833f5b1a680b07e0f3d09f..117ad3733aa20815e46eb9a4afe7f61217475712 100644
--- a/autoconf_share/variants.listfen
+++ b/autoconf_share/variants.listfen
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 gnu.compiler.conf:	CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++
+gnu32.compiler.conf:	CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++
 
 #lofar_root.var:		--with-lofar-default=weekly --with-doxygen-dot --with-ldflags="-all-static"
 lofar_root.var:		--with-lofar-default=weekly --with-doxygen-dot