diff --git a/Mk/bsd.port.mk b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
--- a/Mk/bsd.port.mk
+++ b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@
 .  endif
 .endif
 
-.if defined(USE_BINUTILS) && !defined(DISABLE_BINUTILS)
+.if defined(USE_BINUTILS)
 BUILD_DEPENDS+=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/as:devel/binutils
 BINUTILS?=	ADDR2LINE AR AS CPPFILT GPROF LD NM OBJCOPY OBJDUMP RANLIB \
 	READELF SIZE STRINGS
@@ -1878,6 +1878,16 @@
 . endfor
 .endif
 
+.if !defined(CROSS_TOOLCHAIN) && !defined(USE_BINUTILS)
+SYSMK_TOOLCHAIN+=	AR="${AR}" AS="${AS}" NM="${NM}" OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" \
+					OBJDUMP="${OBJDUMP}" RANLIB="${RANLIB}" READELF="${READELF}" \
+					SIZE="${SIZE}" STRINGS="${STRINGS}" STRIPBIN="${STRIP_CMD}"
+.endif
+# XXX: CC, CPP, CXX once CROSS_TOOLCHAIN is converted
+.if !defined(CROSS_TOOLCHAIN)
+SYSMK_TOOLCHAIN+=	OBJC="${OBJC}"
+.endif
+
 .if defined(USE_OPENLDAP) || defined(WANT_OPENLDAP_VER)
 .include "${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.ldap.mk"
 .endif
@@ -2041,7 +2051,8 @@
 			CPP="${CPP}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" \
 			LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" LIBS="${LIBS}" \
 			CXX="${CXX}" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" \
-			MANPREFIX="${MANPREFIX}"
+			MANPREFIX="${MANPREFIX}" \
+			${SYSMK_TOOLCHAIN}
 
 # Add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS with optimization level -O2 or higher.
 # gcc 4.x enable strict aliasing optimization with -O2 which is known to break
@@ -3261,7 +3272,7 @@
 	@${MKDIR} ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC}
 	@(cd ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC} && \
 	    ${SET_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS} \
-		if ! ${SETENV} CC="${CC}" CPP="${CPP}" CXX="${CXX}" \
+		if ! ${SETENV} CC="${CC}" CPP="${CPP}" CXX="${CXX}" ${SYSMK_TOOLCHAIN} \
 	    CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" \
 	    LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" LIBS="${LIBS}" \
 	    INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -c" \