diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
index f85310e813..628f14dbb0 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
@@ -245,10 +245,9 @@
 # Enabling FORTRAN
 # Note this is not officially supported and is just illustrated here to
 # show an example of how it can be done
-FORTRAN_forcevariable = ",fortran"
-RUNTIMETARGET_append_pn-gcc-runtime = " libquadmath libgfortran"
-export BUILD_FC = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}gfortran ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
-export FC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gfortran ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
+# You'll also need your fortran recipe to depend on libgfortran
+#FORTRAN_forcevariable = ",fortran"
+#RUNTIMETARGET_append_pn-gcc-runtime = " libquadmath"
 
 #
 # Kernel image features
diff --git a/meta/classes/native.bbclass b/meta/classes/native.bbclass
index 7c4e8c35c6..b2d85efd21 100644
--- a/meta/classes/native.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/native.bbclass
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export CONFIG_SITE = "${COREBASE}/meta/site/native"
 # set the compiler as well. It could have been set to something else
 export CC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gcc ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
 export CXX = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}g++ ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
-export F77 = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}g77 ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
+export FC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gfortran ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
 export CPP = "${HOST_PREFIX}gcc ${HOST_CC_ARCH} -E"
 export LD = "${HOST_PREFIX}ld ${HOST_LD_ARCH} "
 export CCLD = "${CC}"
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index bbb1df677e..386c935492 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS = " --sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}"
 
 export CC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gcc ${HOST_CC_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
 export CXX = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}g++ ${HOST_CC_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
-export F77 = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}g77 ${HOST_CC_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
+export FC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gfortran ${HOST_CC_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
 export CPP = "${HOST_PREFIX}gcc -E${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS} ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
 export LD = "${HOST_PREFIX}ld${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS} ${HOST_LD_ARCH}"
 export CCLD = "${CC}"
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ PYTHON = "${@sys.executable}"
 
 export BUILD_CC = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}gcc ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
 export BUILD_CXX = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}g++ ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
-export BUILD_F77 = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}g77 ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
+export BUILD_FC = "${CCACHE}${BUILD_PREFIX}gfortran ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
 export BUILD_CPP = "${BUILD_PREFIX}cpp ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"
 export BUILD_LD = "${BUILD_PREFIX}ld ${BUILD_LD_ARCH}"
 export BUILD_CCLD = "${BUILD_PREFIX}gcc ${BUILD_CC_ARCH}"