2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
index 629fa26dfe..69a3536965 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ BINV = "${PV}"
 #S = "${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}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-source.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-source.inc
index 03bab97815..224b7778ef 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-source.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-source.inc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
 DEPENDS = ""
 PACKAGES = ""
 
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
 
 # This needs to be Python to avoid lots of shell variables becoming dependencies.
 python do_preconfigure () {