diff --git a/sci-biology/bowtie/bowtie-2.2.6.ebuild b/sci-biology/bowtie/bowtie-2.2.6.ebuild
index 3cc3837b740fc..89064500da6c0 100644
--- a/sci-biology/bowtie/bowtie-2.2.6.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/bowtie/bowtie-2.2.6.ebuild
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ src_compile() {
 	emake \
 		CC="$(tc-getCC)" \
 		CPP="$(tc-getCXX)" \
+		CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" \
 		CFLAGS="" \
 		CXXFLAGS="" \
 		EXTRA_FLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" \
diff --git a/sci-biology/bowtie/metadata.xml b/sci-biology/bowtie/metadata.xml
index 58f2d3652fa77..6e56af71b3d13 100644
--- a/sci-biology/bowtie/metadata.xml
+++ b/sci-biology/bowtie/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">bowtie-bio</remote-id>
   </upstream>
   <use>
-    <flag name='tbb'>Enables building bowtie with the Intel
+    <flag name="tbb">Enables building bowtie with the Intel
       Threading Building Blocks from <pkg>dev-cpp/tbb</pkg>. This
       flag is recommended.</flag>
   </use>