diff --git a/base/gcc/gcc.conf b/base/gcc/gcc.conf
index da4509295..02acf186e 100644
--- a/base/gcc/gcc.conf
+++ b/base/gcc/gcc.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../gcc/gcc.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2006 - 2009 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2006 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -13,6 +13,18 @@
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
+# provide same settings we use for -m{arch,cpu,tune} via configure options
+# so they are default compiler settings on the final target machine
+if [ "${ver:0:3}" = "4.4" ]; then
+  for x in $GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT $GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND; do
+    case "$x" in
+      -march=*)       var_append confopt " " "${x/-m/--with-}" ;;
+      -mcpu=*)        var_append confopt " " "${x/-m/--with-}" ;;
+      -mtune=*)       var_append confopt " " "${x/-m/--with-}" ;;
+    esac
+  done
+fi
+
 # create and set up cmd_wrapper for xgcc
 function setup_xgcc_wrapper() {
 	mkdir gcc ; pushd gcc