diff --git a/src/spec-2017/disk-image/spec-2017/runscript.sh b/src/spec-2017/disk-image/spec-2017/runscript.sh
index 922af4f..a3b210f 100644
--- a/src/spec-2017/disk-image/spec-2017/runscript.sh
+++ b/src/spec-2017/disk-image/spec-2017/runscript.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     # run the commands
     read -r workload size m5filespath < workloads
-    runcpu --size $size --iterations 1 --config myconfig.x86.cfg --noreportable --nobuild $workload
+    runcpu --size $size --iterations 1 --config myconfig.x86.cfg --define gcc_dir="/usr" --noreportable --nobuild $workload
     m5 exit
 
     # copy the SPEC result files to host