diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-15.1.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-15.1.inc
index 0032500cdc..18f8cae5ca 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-15.1.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-15.1.inc
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ S = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/gcc-${PV}-${PR}/${SOURCEDIR}"
 B = "${WORKDIR}/gcc-${PV}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
 
 # Language Overrides
-FORTRAN = ""
+FORTRAN ?= ""
 
 SSP ?= "--disable-libssp"
 SSP:mingw32 = "--enable-libssp"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
index 5c79936242..e3fb48c030 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require gcc-shared-source.inc
 # These can be overridden by the version specific .inc file.
 
 # gcc 3.x expects 'f77', 4.0 expects 'f95', 4.1 and 4.2 expect 'fortran'
-FORTRAN ?= ",fortran"
+FORTRAN ??= ",fortran"
 LANGUAGES ?= "c,c++${FORTRAN}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF_BASE ?= ""