diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 410ca7b..7a1e627 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog of Pmodules
 
+## Version 2.0.3
+
+### modulecmd
+
+### build system
+* set CC and CXX if not defined. This was a bug introduced in 2.0.2
+
+### building Pmodules
+* path to Lua installation fixed in recipe to build luarocks
+  (#1320)
+
 ## Version 2.0.2
 
 Migragtion to GitHub:
diff --git a/Pmodules/libpbuild.bash b/Pmodules/libpbuild.bash
index 20c84ca..1d7667b 100644
--- a/Pmodules/libpbuild.bash
+++ b/Pmodules/libpbuild.bash
@@ -648,8 +648,8 @@ pbuild::compile() {
 		unset V
 	fi
 	(( JOBS == 0 )) && JOBS=$(_get_num_cores)
-	std::info "CC=$CC"
-	std::info "CXX=$CXX"
+	[[ -v CC ]] || CC=cc
+	[[ -v CXX ]] || CXX=c++
 	/bin/bash -c "CC=$CC CXX=$CXX ${make} -j${JOBS} -e" || \
 		std::die 3 \
 			 "%s " "${module_name}/${module_version}:" \