diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 5658b61bd..2d244bc6b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	added.
 
 	Updated/fixed packages: busybox, imagemagick, libglib2, lua,
-	luafilesystem, lzo, netcat, php, sysvinit, util-linux
+	luafilesystem, lzo, netcat, php, qt, sysvinit, util-linux
 
 	Issues resolved (http://bugs.uclibc.org):
 
diff --git a/package/qt/qt.mk b/package/qt/qt.mk
index baf653991..eb1ef0ffe 100644
--- a/package/qt/qt.mk
+++ b/package/qt/qt.mk
@@ -483,16 +483,16 @@ ifneq ($(BR2_INET_IPV6),y)
 	$(SED) 's/^CFG_IPV6IFNAME=auto/CFG_IPV6IFNAME=no/' $(QT_TARGET_DIR)/configure
 endif
 	# Fix compiler path
-	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CC,$(TARGET_CC))
-	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CXX,$(TARGET_CXX))
+	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CC,$(filter-out --sysroot=%,$(TARGET_CC)))
+	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CXX,$(filter-out --sysroot=%,$(TARGET_CXX)))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,LINK,$(TARGET_CXX))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,LINK_SHLIB,$(TARGET_CXX))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,AR,$(TARGET_AR) cqs)
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,OBJCOPY,$(TARGET_OBJCOPY))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,RANLIB,$(TARGET_RANLIB))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,STRIP,$(TARGET_STRIP))
-	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CFLAGS,$(TARGET_CFLAGS))
-	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CXXFLAGS,$(TARGET_CXXFLAGS))
+	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CFLAGS,$(TARGET_SYSROOT_OPT) $(TARGET_CFLAGS))
+	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,CXXFLAGS,$(TARGET_SYSROOT_OPT) $(TARGET_CXXFLAGS))
 	$(call QT_QMAKE_SET,LFLAGS,$(TARGET_LDFLAGS))
 	-[ -f $(QT_QCONFIG_FILE) ] && cp $(QT_QCONFIG_FILE) \
 		$(QT_TARGET_DIR)/$(QT_QCONFIG_FILE_LOCATION)