diff --git a/scripts/env2string.awk b/scripts/env2string.awk
index 1bfe9ed..de470a4 100644
--- a/scripts/env2string.awk
+++ b/scripts/env2string.awk
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@
 	if (do_output) {
 		printf("%s", "#define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_TEXT \"")
 
-		# Print out all the variables
+		# Print out all the variables by alphabetic order, if using
+		# gawk. This allows test_env_test.py to work on both awk (where
+		# this next line does nothing)
+		PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@ind_str_asc"
 		for (var in vars) {
 			env = vars[var]
 			print var "=" vars[var] "\\0"