diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
index 07566c7923..4210d15333 100644
--- a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
+++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
@@ -802,7 +802,8 @@
             much to ensure that these Makefiles build correctly.
             It is very common, for example, to explicitly call
             <filename>gcc</filename> instead of using the
-            <filename>CC</filename> variable.
+            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-CC'><filename>CC</filename></ulink>
+            variable.
             Usually, in a cross-compilation environment,
             <filename>gcc</filename> is the compiler for the build host
             and the cross-compiler is named something similar to