diff --git a/0002-Support-specify-CC.patch b/0002-Support-specify-CC.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c25eca4386c3dc8c4940767ad1dbc3ca6068dd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-Support-specify-CC.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 31159c692224d645275a7fa8ce772ef5748e6a54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: luofeng <luofeng13@huawei.com>
+Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:41:53 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] support specify CC
+
+Tested-by: jchzhou <zhoujiacheng@iscas.ac.cn>
+---
+ Makefile | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 51449ba..9991fdc 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
+ STRIP+=--strip-program $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip
+ CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
+ else
+-CC=cc
++CC?=cc
+ endif
+ AR=$(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
+ RANLIB=$(CROSS_COMPILE)ranlib
+-- 
+2.49.0
+
diff --git a/pciutils.spec b/pciutils.spec
index ed96ab546c40248ecb0ea3e290d378d6db49d2c6..2b33a8bd566fae3873be774afff6f04b19148307 100644
--- a/pciutils.spec
+++ b/pciutils.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 Name:           pciutils
 Version:        3.13.0
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Summary:        PCI bus related utilities
 License:        GPLv2+
 URL:            http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml
 Source0:        https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
+# support building with other compilers
+# rebased against 3.13.0
+Patch2:         0002-Support-specify-CC.patch
+
 ExclusiveOS:    Linux
 BuildRequires:  gcc sed kmod-devel pkgconfig zlib-devel
 Requires:       hwdata
@@ -102,6 +106,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids*
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Apr 07 2025 jchzhou <zhoujiacheng@iscas.ac.cn> - 3.13.0-2
+- rebase & add the patch for supporting specifying CC back
+
 * Tue Nov 12 2024 wangmian <wangmian19@h-partners.com> - 3.13.0-1
 - upgrade to 3.13.0