diff --git a/Makefile.target b/Makefile.target
index 6549481096935f953c702a8786de47850259a80f..d0ec77a307027386304264d89b9bf0b72e2ce938 100644
--- a/Makefile.target
+++ b/Makefile.target
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ $(call set-vpath, $(SRC_PATH):$(BUILD_DIR))
 ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
 QEMU_CFLAGS += -I../linux-headers
 endif
-QEMU_CFLAGS += -I.. -I$(SRC_PATH)/target/$(TARGET_BASE_ARCH) -DNEED_CPU_H
+QEMU_CFLAGS += -iquote .. -iquote $(SRC_PATH)/target/$(TARGET_BASE_ARCH) -DNEED_CPU_H
 
-QEMU_CFLAGS+=-I$(SRC_PATH)/include
+QEMU_CFLAGS+=-iquote $(SRC_PATH)/include
 
 ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
 # user emulator name
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f1568059816517b6a857fa6a9e9442a6c382742e..8376cb151a05b90543b65b7165a45092616ff250 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS"
-QEMU_INCLUDES="-I. -I\$(SRC_PATH) -I\$(SRC_PATH)/accel/tcg -I\$(SRC_PATH)/include"
+QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote . -iquote \$(SRC_PATH) -iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/accel/tcg -iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/include"
 if test "$debug_info" = "yes"; then
     CFLAGS="-g $CFLAGS"
     LDFLAGS="-g $LDFLAGS"
@@ -6600,19 +6600,19 @@ if test "$vxhs" = "yes" ; then
 fi
 
 if test "$tcg_interpreter" = "yes"; then
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/tci $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/tci $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 elif test "$ARCH" = "sparc64" ; then
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/sparc $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/sparc $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 elif test "$ARCH" = "s390x" ; then
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/s390 $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/s390 $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 elif test "$ARCH" = "x86_64" -o "$ARCH" = "x32" ; then
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/i386 $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/i386 $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 elif test "$ARCH" = "ppc64" ; then
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/ppc $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/ppc $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 else
-  QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/\$(ARCH) $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+  QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg/\$(ARCH) $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 fi
-QEMU_INCLUDES="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/tcg $QEMU_INCLUDES"
+QEMU_INCLUDES="-iquote \$(SRC_PATH)/tcg $QEMU_INCLUDES"
 
 echo "TOOLS=$tools" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "ROMS=$roms" >> $config_host_mak
diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
index 6e943335f3010034f27b5d50bfae50108b0c446e..93a07027b0a9e4b998d43c410c577ba8dc466106 100644
--- a/rules.mak
+++ b/rules.mak
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ QEMU_DGFLAGS += -MMD -MP -MT $@ -MF $(@D)/$(*F).d
 # dir, one absolute and the other relative to the compiler working
 # directory. These are the same for target-independent files, but
 # different for target-dependent ones.
-QEMU_LOCAL_INCLUDES = -I$(BUILD_DIR)/$(@D) -I$(@D)
+QEMU_LOCAL_INCLUDES = -iquote $(BUILD_DIR)/$(@D) -iquote $(@D)
 
 WL_U := -Wl,-u,
 find-symbols = $(if $1, $(sort $(shell $(NM) -P -g $1 | $2)))