diff --git a/travis/cpuinfo.sh b/travis/cpuinfo.sh
index e5ef8626d3..f728f55f36 100755
--- a/travis/cpuinfo.sh
+++ b/travis/cpuinfo.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 git clone -q https://github.com/pytorch/cpuinfo
 cd cpuinfo
 mkdir build && cd build
-CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 cmake  .. >& cmake.log
+CC=gcc CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 cmake  .. >& cmake.log
 tail -20 cmake.log
 make -j3 >& make.log
 tail -3 make.log