diff --git a/arch/lkl/scripts/cc-objdump-file-format.sh b/arch/lkl/scripts/cc-objdump-file-format.sh
index a2743f27788125..2bbc2b35583978 100755
--- a/arch/lkl/scripts/cc-objdump-file-format.sh
+++ b/arch/lkl/scripts/cc-objdump-file-format.sh
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 # Print the C compiler output file format, as determined by objdump.
 t=`mktemp` || exit 1
 echo 'void foo(void) {}' | $CC -x c - -c -o "$t" \
-	&& $OBJDUMP -p "$t" | awk '/file format/ {print $4}'
+	&& LC_ALL=C $OBJDUMP -p "$t" | awk '/file format/ {print $4}'
 rm "$t"