diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lzip/lzlib_1.16.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lzip/lzlib_1.16.bb
index e076581e05..26f612ca11 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lzip/lzlib_1.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lzip/lzlib_1.16.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ CONFIGUREOPTS = "\
     '--enable-shared' \
     '--disable-static' \
     'CC=${CC}' \
+    'CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}' \
     'CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS}' \
     'CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}' \
     'LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}' \