--- ./SConstruct.orig	2014-08-22 14:25:14.780951671 -0500
+++ ./SConstruct	2014-08-22 14:25:37.478948513 -0500
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     if platform == 'linux-gcc':
         CXX = 'g++' # not quite right, but env is not yet available.
         import commands
-        version = commands.getoutput('%s -dumpversion' %CXX)
+        version = 'FreeBSD'
         platform = 'linux-gcc-%s' %version
         print "Using platform '%s'" %platform
         LD_LIBRARY_PATH = os.environ.get('LD_LIBRARY_PATH', '')
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
     env.Tool( 'default' )
     env.Append( LIBS = ['pthread'], CCFLAGS = "-Wall" )
     env['SHARED_LIB_ENABLED'] = True
+    env['CXX'] = os.environ['CXX']
 else:
     print "UNSUPPORTED PLATFORM."
     env.Exit(1)