diff --git a/sysutils/devcpu-data/files/Makefile b/sysutils/devcpu-data/files/Makefile
index 820c3235ee67..975279ec2a14 100644
--- a/sysutils/devcpu-data/files/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/devcpu-data/files/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 INTEL_UCODE=	Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files-%%GH_TAGNAME%%/intel-ucode
 OUTPUT_DIR=	mcodes
 
 all:	ucode
 ucode:	ucode-split
 	mkdir -p $(OUTPUT_DIR)
 	cd ${OUTPUT_DIR} && \
 	for file in \
 	  ../${INTEL_UCODE}/[0-9,a-f][0-9,a-f]-[0-9,a-f][0-9,a-f]-[0-9,a-f][0-9,a-f]; do \
 		../ucode-split $$file; \
 	done
 
 # Use the host cc to compile ucode-split in case of cross-compile
 ucode-split: ucode-split.c
-	cc ucode-split.c -o $@
+	${CC} ucode-split.c -o $@
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf $(OUTPUT_DIR) ucode-split