diff --git a/games-action/xpilot/xpilot-4.5.5-r1.ebuild b/games-action/xpilot/xpilot-4.5.5-r1.ebuild
index 28e96af330c15..e76581df30514 100644
--- a/games-action/xpilot/xpilot-4.5.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/games-action/xpilot/xpilot-4.5.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ DEPEND="
 	x11-base/xorg-proto"
 BDEPEND="
 	app-text/rman
+	sys-devel/gcc
 	x11-misc/gccmakedep
 	>=x11-misc/imake-1.0.8-r1"
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 src_configure() {
 	CC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" LD="$(tc-getLD)" \
-		IMAKECPP="${IMAKECPP:-$(tc-getCPP)}" xmkmf -a || die
+		IMAKECPP="${IMAKECPP:-${CHOST}-gcc -E}" xmkmf -a || die
 }
 
 src_compile() {