diff --git a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
index faf5418609ea..0c021352beed 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/runqslower/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause)
 OUTPUT := .output
-CLANG := clang
-LLC := llc
-LLVM_STRIP := llvm-strip
+CLANG ?= clang
+LLC ?= llc
+LLVM_STRIP ?= llvm-strip
 DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(OUTPUT)/sbin/bpftool
 BPFTOOL ?= $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL)
 LIBBPF_SRC := $(abspath ../../lib/bpf)