From 21979dad969cce083965f74cd74d333c46008329 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:50:47 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 setup/build_environment.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup/build_environment.py b/setup/build_environment.py
index 4c72873eec..2342693692 100644
--- a/setup/build_environment.py
+++ b/setup/build_environment.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if iswindows:
         if 'SDK' in p:
             MT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(p), 'bin', 'mt.exe')
     MT = os.path.join(SDK, 'Bin', 'mt.exe')
-    os.environ['QMAKESPEC'] = 'win32-msvc2008'
+    os.environ['QMAKESPEC'] = os.environ.get('QMAKESPEC', 'win32-msvc2008')
 
 QMAKE = 'qmake'
 for x in ('qmake-qt5', 'qt5-qmake', 'qmake'):