diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
index 426a31dc47..637ce4dadb 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild,v 1.160 2015/02/20 16:13:22 floppym Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild,v 1.164 2015/04/18 23:54:18 floppym Exp $
 
 EAPI=5
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ inherit cros-workon
 
 AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=yes
 AUTOTOOLS_PRUNE_LIBTOOL_FILES=all
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_2,3_3,3_4} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_3,3_4} )
 inherit autotools-utils bash-completion-r1 linux-info multilib \
 	multilib-minimal pam python-single-r1 systemd toolchain-funcs udev \
 	user
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ MINKV="3.8"
 
 COMMON_DEPEND=">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.25:0=
 	sys-libs/libcap:0=
+	!<sys-libs/glibc-2.16
 	acl? ( sys-apps/acl:0= )
 	apparmor? ( sys-libs/libapparmor:0= )
 	audit? ( >=sys-process/audit-2:0= )
@@ -86,7 +87,6 @@ COMMON_DEPEND=">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.25:0=
 RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	>=sys-apps/baselayout-2.2
 	!sys-auth/nss-myhostname
-	!<sys-libs/glibc-2.14
 	!sys-fs/eudev
 	!sys-fs/udev"
 
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 		QUOTAON=/usr/sbin/quotaon
 		QUOTACHECK=/usr/sbin/quotacheck
 
+		# TODO: we may need to restrict this to gcc
+		EFI_CC="$(tc-getCC)"
+
 		# dbus paths
 		--with-dbuspolicydir="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d"
 		--with-dbussessionservicedir="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/dbus-1/services"