diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/chkconfig/chkconfig_1.3.58.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/chkconfig/chkconfig_1.3.58.bb
index 9e0e1a05f0..0f6398f57e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/chkconfig/chkconfig_1.3.58.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/chkconfig/chkconfig_1.3.58.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5574c6965ae5f583e55880e397fbb018"
 
 DEPENDS = "libnewt popt"
 
-PR = "r2"
+PR = "r3"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://fedorahosted.org/releases/c/h/chkconfig/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
 
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "18b497d25b2cada955c72810e45fcad8280d105f17cf45e2970f182712
 
 inherit autotools gettext
 
-EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'MANDIR="${mandir}" BINDIR="${base_sbindir}" SBINDIR="${sbindir}"'
+# Makefile uses RPM_OPT_fLAGS to construct CFLAGS
+#
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'RPM_OPT_FLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MANDIR="${mandir}" \
+                 BINDIR="${base_sbindir}" SBINDIR="${sbindir}"'
 
 do_install_append() {
     mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/chkconfig.d