diff --git a/makefiles/libc/newlib.mk b/makefiles/libc/newlib.mk
index d02b1a8fa..419604b17 100644
--- a/makefiles/libc/newlib.mk
+++ b/makefiles/libc/newlib.mk
@@ -21,36 +21,48 @@ export LINKFLAGS += -lc
 
 # Search for Newlib include directories
 
-# Since Clang is not installed as a separate instance for each crossdev target
-# we need to tell it where to look for platform specific includes (Newlib
-# headers instead of Linux/Glibc headers.)
-# On GCC this is done when building the cross compiler toolchain so we do not
-# actually need to specify the include paths for system includes.
-# Ubuntu gcc-arm-embedded toolchain (https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded)
-# places newlib headers in several places, but the primary source seem to be
-# /etc/alternatives/gcc-arm-none-eabi-include
-# Gentoo Linux crossdev place the newlib headers in /usr/arm-none-eabi/include
-# Arch Linux also place the newlib headers in /usr/arm-none-eabi/include
-# Ubuntu seem to put a copy of the newlib headers in the same place as
-# Gentoo crossdev, but we prefer to look at /etc/alternatives first.
-# On OSX, newlib includes are possibly located in
-# /usr/local/opt/arm-none-eabi*/arm-none-eabi/include or /usr/local/opt/gcc-arm/arm-none-eabi/include
-NEWLIB_INCLUDE_PATTERNS ?= \
-  /etc/alternatives/gcc-$(TARGET_ARCH)-include \
-  /usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
-  /usr/local/opt/$(TARGET_ARCH)*/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
-  /usr/local/opt/gcc-*/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
-  #
-# Use the wildcard Makefile function to search for existing directories matching
-# the patterns above. We use the -isystem gcc/clang argument to add the include
-# directories as system include directories, which means they will not be
-# searched until after all the project specific include directories (-I/path)
-NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR ?= $(firstword $(wildcard $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_PATTERNS)))
+# Try to search for newlib in the standard search path of the compiler for includes
+ifeq (,$(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR))
+  COMPILER_INCLUDE_PATHS := $(shell $(PREFIX)gcc -v -x c -E /dev/null 2>&1 | \
+                              sed \
+                              -e '1,/\#include <...> search starts here:/d' \
+                              -e '/End of search list./,$$d' \
+                              -e 's/\s//')
+  NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR := $(firstword $(realpath $(dir $(wildcard $(addsuffix /newlib.h, $(COMPILER_INCLUDE_PATHS))))))
+endif
+
+ifeq (,$(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR))
+  # Since Clang is not installed as a separate instance for each crossdev target
+  # we need to tell it where to look for platform specific includes (Newlib
+  # headers instead of Linux/Glibc headers.)
+  # On GCC this is done when building the cross compiler toolchain so we do not
+  # actually need to specify the include paths for system includes.
+  # Ubuntu gcc-arm-embedded toolchain (https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded)
+  # places newlib headers in several places, but the primary source seem to be
+  # /etc/alternatives/gcc-arm-none-eabi-include
+  # Gentoo Linux crossdev place the newlib headers in /usr/arm-none-eabi/include
+  # Arch Linux also place the newlib headers in /usr/arm-none-eabi/include
+  # Ubuntu seem to put a copy of the newlib headers in the same place as
+  # Gentoo crossdev, but we prefer to look at /etc/alternatives first.
+  # On OSX, newlib includes are possibly located in
+  # /usr/local/opt/arm-none-eabi*/arm-none-eabi/include or /usr/local/opt/gcc-arm/arm-none-eabi/include
+  NEWLIB_INCLUDE_PATTERNS ?= \
+    /etc/alternatives/gcc-$(TARGET_ARCH)-include \
+    /usr/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
+    /usr/local/opt/$(TARGET_ARCH)*/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
+    /usr/local/opt/gcc-*/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include \
+    #
+  # Use the wildcard Makefile function to search for existing directories matching
+  # the patterns above. We use the -isystem gcc/clang argument to add the include
+  # directories as system include directories, which means they will not be
+  # searched until after all the project specific include directories (-I/path)
+  NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR := $(firstword $(realpath $(dir $(wildcard $(addsuffix /newlib.h, $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_PATTERNS))))))
+endif
 
 # If nothing was found we will try to fall back to searching for a cross-gcc in
 # the current PATH and use a relative path for the includes
 ifeq (,$(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR))
-  NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR := $(abspath $(wildcard $(dir $(shell command -v $(PREFIX)gcc 2>/dev/null))/../$(TARGET_ARCH)/include))
+  NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR := $(realpath $(wildcard $(dir $(shell command -v $(PREFIX)gcc 2>/dev/null))/../$(TARGET_ARCH)/include))
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(TOOLCHAIN),llvm)
@@ -60,11 +72,13 @@ ifeq ($(TOOLCHAIN),llvm)
   # We also add -nostdinc to avoid including the host system headers by mistake
   # in case some header is missing from the cross tool chain
   NEWLIB_INCLUDES := -isystem $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR) -nostdinc
-  NEWLIB_INCLUDES += $(addprefix -isystem ,$(abspath $(wildcard $(dir $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR))/usr/include)))
+  NEWLIB_INCLUDES += $(addprefix -isystem ,$(realpath $(wildcard $(dir $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR))/usr/include)))
 endif
 
 ifeq (1,$(USE_NEWLIB_NANO))
-  NEWLIB_NANO_INCLUDE_DIR ?= $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)/newlib-nano
+  NEWLIB_NANO_INCLUDE_DIR ?= $(firstword $(wildcard $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)/newlib-nano \
+                                                    $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)/newlib/nano \
+                                                    $(NEWLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)/nano))
   # newlib-nano overrides newlib.h and its include dir should therefore go before
   # the regular system include dirs.
   INCLUDES := -isystem $(NEWLIB_NANO_INCLUDE_DIR) $(INCLUDES)