diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/Makefile.inc b/payloads/libpayload/Makefile.inc
index 1b2a883b16..6188ddefa7 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/Makefile.inc
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/Makefile.inc
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ subdirs-$(CONFIG_LP_CBFS) += libcbfs
 subdirs-$(CONFIG_LP_LZMA) += liblzma
 subdirs-$(CONFIG_LP_LZ4) += liblz4
 
-INCLUDES := -Iinclude -Iinclude/$(ARCHDIR-y) -I$(obj) -include include/kconfig.h
+INCLUDES := -Iinclude -Iinclude/$(ARCHDIR-y) -I$(obj)
+INCLUDES += -include include/kconfig.h -include include/compiler.h
 
 CFLAGS +=  $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) -Os -pipe -nostdinc -ggdb3
 CFLAGS += -nostdlib -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -fomit-frame-pointer
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/bin/lpgcc b/payloads/libpayload/bin/lpgcc
index 2657a1a1b1..aa09c1d116 100755
--- a/payloads/libpayload/bin/lpgcc
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/bin/lpgcc
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ fi
 trygccoption -fno-stack-protector
 [ $? -eq 0 ] && _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -fno-stack-protector"
 
-_CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -include $BASE/../include/kconfig.h -I`$DEFAULT_CC $_ARCHEXTRA -print-search-dirs | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2`include"
+_CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -include $BASE/../include/kconfig.h -include $BASE/../include/compiler.h"
+_CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -I`$DEFAULT_CC $_ARCHEXTRA -print-search-dirs | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2`include"
 
 _LDFLAGS="-L$BASE/../lib -L$_LIBDIR $_LDSCRIPT -static"
 
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/include/cbfs_core.h b/payloads/libpayload/include/cbfs_core.h
index 397e08b301..fc4caa4417 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/include/cbfs_core.h
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/include/cbfs_core.h
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
-#include <compiler.h>
 
 /** These are standard values for the known compression
     alogrithms that coreboot knows about for stages and
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/include/libpayload.h b/payloads/libpayload/include/libpayload.h
index fa501a7801..f206fea2f9 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/include/libpayload.h
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/include/libpayload.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <libpayload-config.h>
-#include <compiler.h>
 #include <cbgfx.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <die.h>