diff --git a/recipes-kernel/jailhouse/jailhouse_git.bb b/recipes-kernel/jailhouse/jailhouse_git.bb
index 0b52ecba..32aecf8a 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/jailhouse/jailhouse_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-kernel/jailhouse/jailhouse_git.bb
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ JH_SYSCONFIG_CELL ?= ""
 JH_SYSCONFIG_CELL_am65xx ?= "k3-am654-idk.cell"
 JH_SYSCONFIG_CELL_j7-evm ?= "k3-j721e-evm.cell"
 
+INITRAMFS_IMAGE ?= ""
 JH_RAMFS_IMAGE ?= "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}"
 
 JH_CMDLINE ?= ""
@@ -78,10 +79,8 @@ USER_SPACE_CFLAGS = '${CFLAGS} -DLIBEXECDIR=\\\"${libexecdir}\\\" \
                     -I../driver'
 
 TOOLS_SRC_DIR = "${S}/tools"
-TOOLS_OBJ_DIR = "${S}/tools"
-
-EXTRA_OEMAKE = "ARCH=${JH_ARCH} CROSS_COMPILE=${TARGET_PREFIX} KDIR=${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
 
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "ARCH=${JH_ARCH} CROSS_COMPILE=${TARGET_PREFIX} CC="${CC}" KDIR=${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}"
 
 do_compile() {
 	oe_runmake V=1