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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 82f077668c..ee7f391b94 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -283,6 +283,14 @@ for ARCH and optionally VARIANT, or #f if there is no such configuration."
("bc" ,bc)
("openssl" ,openssl)
("kmod" ,kmod)
+ ;; On x86, build with GCC-7 for full retpoline support.
+ ;; FIXME: Remove this when our default compiler has retpoline support.
+ ,@(match (system->linux-architecture
+ (or (%current-target-system) (%current-system)))
+ ((or "x86_64" "i386")
+ `(("gcc" ,gcc-7)))
+ (_
+ '()))
,@(match (and configuration-file
(configuration-file
(system->linux-architecture