diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
index 0f70be7..2abc0e3 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 #S = "${WORKDIR}/gcc-${PV}"
 S = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/gcc-${PV}-${PR}/gcc-${PV}"
 
-B = "${WORKDIR}/gcc-${PV}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
+B ?= "${WORKDIR}/gcc-${PV}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
 
 target_includedir ?= "${includedir}"
 target_libdir ?= "${libdir}"