diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse/makefile-quoting.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse/makefile-quoting.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6bd2ffbb55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse/makefile-quoting.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+OE's CC and CXX contain spaces and extra options which is incompatible with 
+cmake way of handling them. Remove passing the compiler options this way in
+favour of our normal cmake toolchain files added elsewhere.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Index: git/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/Makefile
++++ git/Makefile
+@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ metis: include/metis.h
+ # hardcoded below.
+ include/metis.h:
+ ifeq (,$(MY_METIS_LIB))
+-	- ( cd metis-5.1.0 && $(MAKE) config shared=1 prefix=$(SUITESPARSE) cc=$(CC) )
++	- ( cd metis-5.1.0 && $(MAKE) config shared=1 prefix=$(SUITESPARSE) )
+ 	- ( cd metis-5.1.0 && $(MAKE) )
+ 	- ( cd metis-5.1.0 && $(MAKE) install )
+ 	- $(SO_INSTALL_NAME) $(SUITESPARSE)/lib/libmetis.dylib \
+Index: git/SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.mk
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.mk
++++ git/SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.mk
+@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ SUITESPARSE_VERSION = 5.10.1
+         endif
+     endif
+ 
+-    CMAKE_OPTIONS += -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$(CXX) -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$(CC)
++    #CMAKE_OPTIONS += -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$(CXX) -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$(CC)
+ 
+     #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     # CFLAGS for the C/C++ compiler
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
index 13e6fd066c..29f114a9dc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse;protocol=https;branc
            file://0001-Preserve-CXXFLAGS-from-environment-in-Mongoose.patch \
            file://0002-Preserve-links-when-installing-libmetis.patch \
            file://0003-Add-version-information-to-libmetis.patch \
+           file://makefile-quoting.patch \
            "
 SRCREV = "538273cfd53720a10e34a3d80d3779b607e1ac26"
 
@@ -14,25 +15,17 @@ DEPENDS = "cmake-native lapack gmp mpfr chrpath-native"
 PROVIDES = "mongoose graphblas"
 RPROVIDES:${PN} = "mongoose graphblas"
 
-# The values of $CC, $CXX, and $LD that Bitbake uses have spaces in them which
-# causes problems when the SuiteSparse Makefiles try to pass these values on
-# the command line. To get around this problem, set these variables to only the
-# program name and prepend the rest of the value onto the corresponding FLAGS
-# variable.
-CFLAGS:prepend := "${@" ".join(d.getVar('CC').split()[1:])} "
-export CC := "${@d.getVar('CC').split()[0]}"
+inherit cmake
 
-CXXFLAGS:prepend := "${@" ".join(d.getVar('CXX').split()[1:])} "
-export CXX := "${@d.getVar('CXX').split()[0]}"
-
-LDFLAGS:prepend := "${@" ".join(d.getVar('LD').split()[1:])} "
-export LD := "${@d.getVar('LD').split()[0]}"
+B = "${S}"
 
 export CMAKE_OPTIONS = " \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${D}${prefix} \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=${baselib} \
 "
 
+OECMAKE_SOURCEPATH = "${S}/Mongoose ${S}/metis-5.1.0 ${S}/GraphBLAS"
+
 do_compile () {
 	oe_runmake library
 }