diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5675aa15ae84..de2c8f7cb9d7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -385,6 +385,8 @@ INSTALLKERNEL  := installkernel
 DEPMOD		= /sbin/depmod
 PERL		= perl
 PYTHON		= python
+PYTHON2		= python2
+PYTHON3		= python3
 CHECK		= sparse
 
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
@@ -430,7 +432,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=
 
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
 export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP HOSTLDFLAGS HOST_LOADLIBES
-export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON UTS_MACHINE
+export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
 export HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
 
 export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS