diff --git a/Makefile.unix b/Makefile.unix
index 96179c419b..022c796216 100644
--- a/Makefile.unix
+++ b/Makefile.unix
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ gconfig: apps_preconfig
 # that the archiver is 'ar'
 
 export: pass2deps
-	$(Q) $(MKEXPORT) $(MKEXPORT_ARGS) -l "$(EXPORTLIBS)"
+	$(Q) MAKE=${MAKE} $(MKEXPORT) $(MKEXPORT_ARGS) -l "$(EXPORTLIBS)"
 
 # General housekeeping targets:  dependencies, cleaning, etc.
 #
diff --git a/tools/mkexport.sh b/tools/mkexport.sh
index 37a78394bd..ebaff91b88 100755
--- a/tools/mkexport.sh
+++ b/tools/mkexport.sh
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ grep -v "WINTOOL[ \t]*=[ \t]y" "${TOPDIR}/Make.defs"  > "${EXPORTDIR}/Make.defs"
 
 # Extract information from the Make.defs file.  A Makefile can do this best
 
-make -C "${TOPDIR}/tools" -f Makefile.export TOPDIR="${TOPDIR}" EXPORTDIR="${EXPORTDIR}"
+${MAKE} -C "${TOPDIR}/tools" -f Makefile.export TOPDIR="${TOPDIR}" EXPORTDIR="${EXPORTDIR}"
 source "${EXPORTDIR}/makeinfo.sh"
 rm -f "${EXPORTDIR}/makeinfo.sh"
 rm -f "${EXPORTDIR}/Make.defs"
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ cp -LR -p "${TOPDIR}/include" "${EXPORTDIR}/." || \
 
 # Copy the startup object file(s)
 
-make -C ${ARCHDIR} export_startup TOPDIR=${TOPDIR} EXPORT_DIR="${EXPORTDIR}"
+${MAKE} -C ${ARCHDIR} export_startup TOPDIR=${TOPDIR} EXPORT_DIR="${EXPORTDIR}"
 
 # Copy architecture-specific header files into the arch export sub-directory.
 # This is tricky because each architecture does things in a little different