Makefile.gcc |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.gcc b/Makefile.gcc
index 716b6c6..f0c1de2 100644
--- a/Makefile.gcc
+++ b/Makefile.gcc
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Makefile August 2006 by Alexandros Stamatakis
 # Makefile cleanup October 2006, Courtesy of Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>
 
-CC = gcc 
+CC ?= gcc 
 
 
-CFLAGS = -D_GNU_SOURCE  -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -O2 -msse
+CPPFLAGS += -D_GNU_SOURCE
 
 
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ all : raxmlHPC
 GLOBAL_DEPS = axml.h globalVariables.h
 
 raxmlHPC : $(objs)
-	$(CC) -o raxmlHPC $(objs) $(LIBRARIES) 
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o raxmlHPC $(objs) $(LIBRARIES) $(LIBS)
 
 classify.o : classify.c $(GLOBAL_DEPS)
 evaluatePartialSpecialGeneric.o : evaluatePartialSpecialGeneric.c $(GLOBAL_DEPS)