diff --git a/cross/crossdirect/APKBUILD b/cross/crossdirect/APKBUILD
index 39c1bc9e8..4a04ee5da 100644
--- a/cross/crossdirect/APKBUILD
+++ b/cross/crossdirect/APKBUILD
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 pkgname=crossdirect
 pkgver=4
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Wrappers to launch native cross compilers in foreign chroots"
 url="https://postmarketOS.org"
 arch="all"
@@ -77,6 +77,6 @@ package() {
 		install -Dm755 "$srcdir/rustc-$_arch" "$_bindir/rustc"
 	done
 }
-sha512sums="53d2910a9079e1b8a7fef2992eb98ef9e1a70054fa9eb8a00e1c2f2d0b5b0de6fe8f2b8e8f7806396f76b0e97ccbf9169b36215b20f60792c6758f936681730a  crossdirect.c
+sha512sums="500107e5aff8b34e74b54982ebcd447fc41bc8283956d506561b031a055cb30ec12698047c2604918b4b6d8560fe03db427a63dff2b83c907e8494b7f5233f29  crossdirect.c
 6be16ba88720e628a3ecc8fa53f8e7a21d2af268b0509745d989139874d6b94b640bfcff09575eaa19073810be6ef91169c1f83e94f5cf8e6819f2670d9408de  rustc.sh
 ea9bf8db3810d03d0a7395057f3d6e57f7127d87c55deaedc171c255288f5f3cc6fbcc680a5a1b92786cf573875d5dc22521173799fe2639acc97d0715ff905b  rust-qemu-linker.sh"
diff --git a/cross/crossdirect/crossdirect.c b/cross/crossdirect/crossdirect.c
index a55e70db3..3ebe8f7d4 100644
--- a/cross/crossdirect/crossdirect.c
+++ b/cross/crossdirect/crossdirect.c
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Translate "cc" to "gcc": /usr/bin/cc is a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc,
+	// but there is no <HOSTSPEC>-cc symlink (pmaports#732)
+	if (strcmp(executableName, "cc") == 0)
+		executableName = "gcc";
+
 	// prepend the HOSTSPEC to GCC binaries
 	if (isClang || startsWithHostSpec) {
 		snprintf(newExecutable, sizeof(newExecutable), NATIVE_BIN_DIR "/%s", executableName);