diff --git a/build b/build
index 26bfeab43..7fba2555f 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ cmake "$ROOTDIR/zig" \
   -DZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE="$TARGET" \
   -DZIG_TARGET_MCPU="$MCPU" \
   -DZIG_EXECUTABLE="$ZIG" \
-  -DZIG_VERSION="$ZIG_VERSION"
+  -DZIG_VERSION="$ZIG_VERSION" \
+  -DZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG=OFF
 unset CC
 unset CXX
 make "$JOBS" install
diff --git a/zig/CMakeLists.txt b/zig/CMakeLists.txt
index 1c0218e30..be3a7e8d2 100644
--- a/zig/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/zig/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -87,10 +87,13 @@ option(ZIG_TEST_COVERAGE "Build Zig with test coverage instrumentation" OFF)
 set(ZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE "native" CACHE STRING "arch-os-abi to output binaries for")
 set(ZIG_TARGET_MCPU "baseline" CACHE STRING "-mcpu parameter to output binaries for")
 set(ZIG_EXECUTABLE "" CACHE STRING "(when cross compiling) path to already-built zig binary")
-set(ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG off CACHE BOOL "(when cross compiling) use llvm-config to find target llvm dependencies if needed")
 set(ZIG_SINGLE_THREADED off CACHE BOOL "limit the zig compiler to use only 1 thread")
 set(ZIG_OMIT_STAGE2 off CACHE BOOL "omit the stage2 backend from stage1")
 
+set(ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG_DEFAULT ("${ZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE}" STREQUAL "native"))
+set(ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG ${ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG_DEFAULT} CACHE BOOL
+  "(when cross compiling) use llvm-config to find target llvm dependencies if needed")
+
 find_package(llvm)
 find_package(clang)
 find_package(lld)
diff --git a/zig/cmake/Findllvm.cmake b/zig/cmake/Findllvm.cmake
index 2ab2c23ad..78b539e97 100644
--- a/zig/cmake/Findllvm.cmake
+++ b/zig/cmake/Findllvm.cmake
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if(ZIG_PREFER_CLANG_CPP_DYLIB)
   if("${LLVM_CONFIG_VERSION}" VERSION_GREATER 13)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "expected LLVM 12.x but found ${LLVM_CONFIG_VERSION} using ${LLVM_CONFIG_EXE}")
   endif()
-elseif(("${ZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE}" STREQUAL "native") OR ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG)
+elseif(ZIG_PREFER_LLVM_CONFIG)
   find_program(LLVM_CONFIG_EXE
       NAMES llvm-config-12 llvm-config-12.0 llvm-config120 llvm-config12 llvm-config
       PATHS