diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.1.bb
index 8fab28f338..d62a903a70 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.1.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "864c8aee2efdda50346804d7e6230407d5f42a8ae754df70404dd8b2fd
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/files/gptfdisk/"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "/gptfdisk/(?P<pver>(\d+[\.\-_]*)+)/"
 
-EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'CC=${CC}' 'CXX=${CXX}'"
 
 do_install() {
     install -d ${D}${sbindir}