diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial.inc
index 906251633b..1020e402d3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial.inc
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = ""
 
 STAGINGCC = "gcc-cross-initial"
 STAGINGCC_virtclass-nativesdk = "gcc-crosssdk-initial"
+TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS = " --sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}"
 
 do_configure () {
 	sed -ie 's,{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; },{ (exit 0); }; },g' ${S}/configure
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
index 787c762609..f6b09ac987 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 require eglibc_${PV}.bb
 require eglibc-initial.inc
 
-do_configure_prepend () {
-        unset CFLAGS
-}
+# main eglibc recipes muck with TARGET_CPPFLAGS to point into
+# final target sysroot but we
+# are not there when building eglibc-initial
+# so reset it here
+
+TARGET_CPPFLAGS = ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
index b76d94320e..fc3d82bd8c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require eglibc.inc
 SRCREV = "19383"
 
 DEPENDS += "gperf-native"
-PR = "r1"
+PR = "r2"
 PR_append = "+svnr${SRCPV}"
 
 EGLIBC_BRANCH="eglibc-2_16"