diff --git a/scripts/gki/generate_defconfig.sh b/scripts/gki/generate_defconfig.sh
index 2d71a37374b7..b6ab442fbe07 100755
--- a/scripts/gki/generate_defconfig.sh
+++ b/scripts/gki/generate_defconfig.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-# Copyright (c) 2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2020, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
 
 # Script to generate a defconfig variant based on the input
 
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@ FINAL_DEFCONFIG_BLEND=`echo "${FINAL_DEFCONFIG_BLEND}" | awk '{ for (i=NF; i>1;
 echo "defconfig blend for $REQUIRED_DEFCONFIG: $FINAL_DEFCONFIG_BLEND"
 
 MAKE_ARGS=$KERN_MAKE_ARGS \
+MAKE_PATH=${MAKE_PATH} \
 	${KERN_SRC}/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh $FINAL_DEFCONFIG_BLEND
-make $KERN_MAKE_ARGS savedefconfig
+${MAKE_PATH}make $KERN_MAKE_ARGS savedefconfig
 mv defconfig $CONFIGS_DIR/$REQUIRED_DEFCONFIG
 
 # Cleanup the allyes config fragment and other generated files
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
index c17f39f507ce..e46c96b34d0d 100755
--- a/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ fi
 # Use the merged file as the starting point for:
 # alldefconfig: Fills in any missing symbols with Kconfig default
 # allnoconfig: Fills in any missing symbols with # CONFIG_* is not set
-make $MAKE_ARGS KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$TMP_FILE $OUTPUT_ARG $ALLTARGET
+${MAKE_PATH}make $MAKE_ARGS KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$TMP_FILE $OUTPUT_ARG $ALLTARGET
 
 
 # Check all specified config values took (might have missed-dependency issues)