diff --git a/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/check.sh b/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/check.sh
index 5ef5f01fac..2b1faf8bf9 100755
--- a/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/check.sh
+++ b/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/check.sh
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ UNEXPORTED_VARIABLES+=('PYOCD_ADAPTER_INIT')
 UNEXPORTED_VARIABLES+=('JLINK_DEVICE' 'JLINK_IF')
 UNEXPORTED_VARIABLES+=('JLINK_PRE_FLASH' 'JLINK_RESET_FILE')
 UNEXPORTED_VARIABLES+=('GIT_CACHE' 'GIT_CACHE_DIR')
+UNEXPORTED_VARIABLES+=('LINKXX')
 
 EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS=()
 EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('APPDEPS')
@@ -121,6 +122,10 @@ EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('TARGET_ARCH')
 EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('TOOLCHAIN')
 EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('WERROR')
 EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('WPEDANTIC')
+EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('CC[ =]' 'CXX' 'CCAS')
+EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('AR[ =]' 'RANLIB')
+EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('AS' 'NM' 'SIZE' 'LINK')
+EXPORTED_VARIABLES_ONLY_IN_VARS+=('OBJDUMP' 'OBJCOPY')
 
 check_not_exporting_variables() {
     local patterns=()