diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
index 7c4843a5f6..c84a44d065 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/system-tools-depends/i2c-tools/package.mk
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ pre_make_target() {
 
 make_target() {
   make  EXTRA="py-smbus" \
-        CC="$TARGET_CC" \
+        CC="$CC" \
         AR="$TARGET_AR" \
         CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS" \
         CPPFLAGS="$TARGET_CPPFLAGS -I${SYSROOT_PREFIX}/usr/include/python2.7"