diff --git a/mk/prefix.mk b/mk/prefix.mk
index 16751a811..dd987ea71 100644
--- a/mk/prefix.mk
+++ b/mk/prefix.mk
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ else
 	@echo "\033[1;36;49mBuilding rust-install\033[0m"
 	rm -rf "$@.partial" "$@"
 	export PATH="$(ROOT)/$(PREFIX)/libtool-install/bin:$$PATH" \
-		$(PREFIX_CONFIG) COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT=/usr COOKBOOK_CROSS_TARGET=$(TARGET) && \
+		$(PREFIX_CONFIG) COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT=/usr COOKBOOK_CROSS_TARGET=$(TARGET) COOKBOOK_CROSS_GNU_TARGET=$(GNU_TARGET) && \
 		$(REPO_BIN) cook host:llvm21 host:rust
 	cp -r "$(RUST_TARGET)/stage/usr/". "$@.partial"
 	cp -r "$(LLVM_TARGET)/stage/usr/". "$@.partial"
diff --git a/recipes/dev/rust/config-cross-linux.toml b/recipes/dev/rust/config-cross-linux.toml
index 879616361..c2d4ea1d9 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/rust/config-cross-linux.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/rust/config-cross-linux.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ link-shared = true
 
 [build]
 host = ["TARGET"]
-target = ["TARGET", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl"]
+target = ["TARGET", "COOKBOOK_TARGET"]
 cargo-native-static = true
 submodules = false
 docs = false
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ sysconfdir = "etc"
 backtrace = false
 codegen-tests = false
 
+[target.COOKBOOK_TARGET]
+cc = "COOKBOOK_GNU_TARGET-gcc"
+cxx = "COOKBOOK_GNU_TARGET-g++"
+ar = "COOKBOOK_GNU_TARGET-ar"
+linker = "COOKBOOK_GNU_TARGET-gcc"
+crt-static = false
+llvm-config = "COOKBOOK_SYSROOT/bin/llvm-config"
+
 [target.aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu]
 llvm-config = "COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN/bin/llvm-config"
 
diff --git a/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml b/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
index 10d4b983d..020909b26 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ if [ "${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}" = "/usr" ]; then
 
 OS=$(echo "${TARGET}" | cut -d - -f3)
 cat ${COOKBOOK_RECIPE}/config-cross-$OS.toml > config.toml
-sed -i "s|TARGET|${TARGET}|g" config.toml
 sed -i "s|COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN|${COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN}|g" config.toml
+sed -i "s|COOKBOOK_TARGET|${COOKBOOK_CROSS_TARGET}|g" config.toml
+sed -i "s|COOKBOOK_GNU_TARGET|${COOKBOOK_CROSS_GNU_TARGET}|g" config.toml
+sed -i "s|TARGET|${TARGET}|g" config.toml
 
 else