diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
index 77b7bbb30f..1d12290cfb 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gcc$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CXX = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)g++$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_FC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gfortran$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_READELF = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)readelf$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_READELF = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)readelf
 
 # Normal handling of downloaded toolchain tarball extraction.
 ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD),y)