diff --git a/package/hotplug2/Makefile b/package/hotplug2/Makefile
index 6b69bac733..bf7c8c6b09 100644
--- a/package/hotplug2/Makefile
+++ b/package/hotplug2/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ define Package/hotplug2/description
 Hotplug2 is a trivial replacement of some of the UDev functionality
 in a tiny pack, intended for Linux early userspace: Init RAM FS and InitRD.
 endef
+MAKE_FLAGS += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)"
 
 define Package/hotplug2/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/etc
diff --git a/package/hotplug2/patches/110-depend_fix.patch b/package/hotplug2/patches/110-depend_fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..762b26fa18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/hotplug2/patches/110-depend_fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: hotplug2-0.9/common.mak
+===================================================================
+--- hotplug2-0.9.orig/common.mak	2007-06-25 08:08:59.320226312 +0200
++++ hotplug2-0.9/common.mak	2007-06-25 08:09:03.541584568 +0200
+@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
+ .PHONY: all clean dep install install-recursive clean-recursive \
+ 	dep-recursive all-recursive
+ 
+-MAKEDEP=-gcc $(CFLAGS) -MM $(wildcard *.c *.cc) > .depend
++MAKEDEP=-$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $(wildcard *.c *.cc) > .depend
+ dep: dep-recursive
+ 	$(MAKEDEP)
+ .depend: