diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
index c7642befa4..356ca22f4a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ do_boostconfig() {
 	# D2194:Fixing the failure of "error: duplicate initialization of gcc with the following parameters" during compilation.
 	if ! grep -qe "^using gcc : 4.3.1" ${S}/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam 
 	then
-		echo 'using gcc : 4.3.1 : ${CXX} : compileflags -DBOOST_SP_USE_PTHREADS -I${includedir} linkflags -L${libdir} ;' >> ${S}/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam
+		echo 'using gcc : 4.3.1 : ${CXX} : <cflags>"${CFLAGS}" <cxxflags>"${CXXFLAGS}" <linkflags>"${LDFLAGS}" ;' >> ${S}/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam
 	fi	
 
 	echo "using python : ${PYTHON_BASEVERSION} : : ${STAGING_INCDIR}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION} ;" >> ${S}/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam