Use CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD and LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD for the tools since expat may not be living in the default include & library path. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias diff -Nura libdbus-c++-0.9.0.orig/configure.ac libdbus-c++-0.9.0/configure.ac --- libdbus-c++-0.9.0.orig/configure.ac 2014-01-05 15:28:03.653886567 -0300 +++ libdbus-c++-0.9.0/configure.ac 2014-01-05 15:44:32.571172225 -0300 @@ -65,7 +65,11 @@ AC_PROG_CXX CXX_FOR_BUILD=${CXX_FOR_BUILD-${CXX}} +CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=${CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD-${CXXFLAGS}} +LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=${LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD-${LDFLAGS}} AC_SUBST(CXX_FOR_BUILD) +AC_SUBST(CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) +AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) AM_PROG_LIBTOOL diff -Nura libdbus-c++-0.9.0.orig/tools/Makefile.am libdbus-c++-0.9.0/tools/Makefile.am --- libdbus-c++-0.9.0.orig/tools/Makefile.am 2014-01-05 15:28:03.652886535 -0300 +++ libdbus-c++-0.9.0/tools/Makefile.am 2014-01-05 15:44:42.071482390 -0300 @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ # hacky, but ... CXX = $(CXX_FOR_BUILD) +CXXFLAGS = $(CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) +LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) AM_CPPFLAGS = \ $(dbus_CFLAGS) \