diff --git a/legacy/edje/configure.ac b/legacy/edje/configure.ac
index eceed6c032..56e241dcce 100644
--- a/legacy/edje/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/edje/configure.ac
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([amalgamation],
 )
 AM_CONDITIONAL([EDJE_AMALGAMATION], [test "x${do_amalgamation}" = "xyes"])
 
+EFL_WITH_BIN([edje], [edje-cc], [edje_cc])
+
 EFL_ENABLE_BIN([edje-cc])
 EFL_ENABLE_BIN([edje-decc])
 EFL_ENABLE_BIN([edje-recc])
@@ -541,11 +543,6 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([build-examples],
    [
     if test "x${enableval}" = "xyes" ; then
        build_examples="yes"
-       edje_cc=$($PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix edje)/bin/edje_cc
-      # put in here the dependencies for Edje' examples. They are
-       # meant to be 'real world' usage examples, thus one will be
-       # using higher level libraries on these programs
-       AC_SUBST(edje_cc)
     else
        build_examples="no"
     fi
diff --git a/legacy/edje/m4/efl_binary.m4 b/legacy/edje/m4/efl_binary.m4
index 93d6934415..c774688174 100644
--- a/legacy/edje/m4/efl_binary.m4
+++ b/legacy/edje/m4/efl_binary.m4
@@ -42,3 +42,30 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_[]UP, test "x$have_[]m4_defn([DOWN])" = "xyes")
 AS_IF([test "x$have_[]m4_defn([DOWN])" = "xyes"], [$2], [$3])
 
 ])
+
+
+dnl Macro that check if a binary is built or not
+
+dnl Usage: EFL_WITH_BIN(package, binary, default_value)
+dnl Call AC_SUBST(_binary) (_binary is the lowercase of binary, - being transformed into _ by default, or the value set by the user)
+
+AC_DEFUN([EFL_WITH_BIN],
+[
+
+m4_pushdef([DOWN], m4_translit([[$2]], [-A-Z], [_a-z]))dnl
+
+dnl configure option
+
+AC_ARG_WITH([$2],
+   [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-$2=PATH], [specify a specific path to ]DOWN[ @<:@default=$3@:>@])],
+   [_efl_with_binary=${withval}],
+   [_efl_with_binary=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix $1)/bin/$3])
+
+DOWN=${_efl_with_binary}
+AC_MSG_NOTICE(DOWN[ set to ${_efl_with_binary}])
+
+with_binary_[]m4_defn([DOWN])=${_efl_with_binary}
+
+AC_SUBST(DOWN)
+
+])
diff --git a/legacy/edje/src/examples/Makefile.am b/legacy/edje/src/examples/Makefile.am
index 579f148880..8b3d88ecc8 100644
--- a/legacy/edje/src/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/legacy/edje/src/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
 
+EDJE_CC = @edje_cc@
+EDJE_CC_FLAGS_VERBOSE_0 =
+EDJE_CC_FLAGS_VERBOSE_1 = -v
+EDJE_CC_FLAGS = $(EDJE_CC_FLAGS_$(V)) -id $(srcdir) -fd $(srcdir)
+
 examplesdir = $(datadir)/$(PACKAGE)/examples
 
 if ENABLE_MULTISENSE
@@ -24,7 +29,8 @@ EDCS = \
 	$(MULTISENSE_EDC_FILE)
 
 .edc.edj:
-	$(edje_cc) -v -fd $(srcdir) -id $(srcdir) $(SND_DIR) $< $(builddir)/$(@F)
+	$(EDJE_CC) $(EDJE_CC_FLAGS) $(SND_DIR) $< $(builddir)/$(@F)
+
 
 EDJS = $(EDCS:%.edc=%.edj)
 
@@ -65,19 +71,22 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS = \
 files_DATA += $(EDJS)
 
 examples_PROGRAMS = \
+	edje-animations \
 	edje-basic \
-	edje-swallow \
-	edje-text \
-	edje-table \
 	edje-box \
 	edje-box2 \
-	edje-drag\
-	edje-signals-messages \
 	edje-color-class \
+	edje-drag\
 	edje-perspective \
-	edje-animations \
+	edje-signals-messages \
+	edje-swallow \
+	edje-table \
+	edje-text \
 	sigtest
 
 LDADD = $(top_builddir)/src/lib/libedje.la @EDJE_LIBS@
 
 endif
+
+clean-local:
+	rm -f *.edj