diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
index 829e728b6d..1c13fb3599 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ do_configure() {
 
 	# D2194:Fixing the failure of "error: duplicate initialization of gcc with the following parameters" during compilation.
 	rm -f ${WORKDIR}/user-config.jam
-	echo 'using gcc : 4.3.1 : ${CXX} : <cflags>"${CFLAGS}" <cxxflags>"${CXXFLAGS}" <linkflags>"${LDFLAGS}" ;' >> ${WORKDIR}/user-config.jam
+	echo 'using gcc : : ${CXX} : <cflags>"${CFLAGS}" <cxxflags>"${CXXFLAGS}" <linkflags>"${LDFLAGS}" ;' >> ${WORKDIR}/user-config.jam
 
 	# If we want Python then we need to tell Boost *exactly* where to find it
 	if ${@bb.utils.contains('BOOST_LIBS', 'python', 'true', 'false', d)}; then