1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 85d758233483..f641bb0aa63f 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -74,8 +74,13 @@ endef
 # Usage: CROSS_COMPILE := $(call cc-cross-prefix, m68k-linux-gnu- m68k-linux-)
 # Return first <prefix> where a <prefix>gcc is found in PATH.
 # If no gcc found in PATH with listed prefixes return nothing
+#
+# Note: '2>/dev/null' is here to force Make to invoke a shell. Otherwise, it
+# would try to directly execute the shell builtin 'command'. This workaround
+# should be kept for a long time since this issue was fixed only after the
+# GNU Make 4.2.1 release.
 cc-cross-prefix = $(firstword $(foreach c, $(filter-out -%, $(1)), \
-                                        $(if $(shell which $(c)gcc), $(c))))
+                        $(if $(shell command -v $(c)gcc 2>/dev/null), $(c))))
 
 # output directory for tests below
 TMPOUT := $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/)