diff --git a/meta-arm/recipes-bsp/uefi/edk2-firmware.inc b/meta-arm/recipes-bsp/uefi/edk2-firmware.inc
index c2d9bf12..23342015 100644
--- a/meta-arm/recipes-bsp/uefi/edk2-firmware.inc
+++ b/meta-arm/recipes-bsp/uefi/edk2-firmware.inc
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ export BTOOLS_PATH = "${EDK_TOOLS_PATH}/BinWrappers/PosixLike"
 EDK_COMPILER ?= "GCC5"
 EDK_COMPILER_toolchain-clang = "CLANG38"
 
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    sed -i -e "s#-target ${HOST_ARCH}-linux-gnu*#-target ${HOST_SYS}#" ${S}/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
+}
+
 do_compile() {
     sed -i -e 's:-I \.\.:-I \.\. ${BUILD_CFLAGS} :' ${EDK_TOOLS_PATH}/Source/C/Makefiles/header.makefile
     sed -i -e 's: -luuid: -luuid ${BUILD_LDFLAGS}:g' ${EDK_TOOLS_PATH}/Source/C/*/GNUmakefile