diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index c6943ea8231c51..7ca3dc62c01555 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ Python/frozen.o: $(FROZEN_FILES_OUT)
 # an include guard, so we can't use a pipeline to transform its output.
 Include/pydtrace_probes.h: $(srcdir)/Include/pydtrace.d
 	$(MKDIR_P) Include
-	$(DTRACE) $(DFLAGS) -o $@ -h -s $<
+	CC="$(CC)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" $(DTRACE) $(DFLAGS) -o $@ -h -s $<
 	: sed in-place edit with POSIX-only tools
 	sed 's/PYTHON_/PyDTrace_/' $@ > $@.tmp
 	mv $@.tmp $@
@@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ Python/import.o: $(srcdir)/Include/pydtrace.h
 Modules/gcmodule.o: $(srcdir)/Include/pydtrace.h
 
 Python/pydtrace.o: $(srcdir)/Include/pydtrace.d $(DTRACE_DEPS)
-	$(DTRACE) $(DFLAGS) -o $@ -G -s $< $(DTRACE_DEPS)
+	CC="$(CC)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" $(DTRACE) $(DFLAGS) -o $@ -G -s $< $(DTRACE_DEPS)
 
 Objects/typeobject.o: Objects/typeslots.inc
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-03-31-19-22-41.gh-issue-131865.PIJy7X.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-03-31-19-22-41.gh-issue-131865.PIJy7X.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a287e0b22834f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-03-31-19-22-41.gh-issue-131865.PIJy7X.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The DTrace build now properly passes the ``CC`` and ``CFLAGS`` variables
+to the ``dtrace`` command when utilizing SystemTap on Linux.