diff --git a/sys-libs/mesa/mesa-17.1.10.recipe b/sys-libs/mesa/mesa-17.1.10.recipe
index ada9653e4..fdf12c082 100644
--- a/sys-libs/mesa/mesa-17.1.10.recipe
+++ b/sys-libs/mesa/mesa-17.1.10.recipe
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ BUILD()
 	# manually patch it here
 	sed -i 's@"\$LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR" -gt "\$llvm_target_version_major"@true@' configure
 	sed -i 's@-DHAVE_LLVM=0x0\$LLVM_VERSION_INT@-DHAVE_LLVM=0x0700@' configure
-	runConfigure ./configure \
+	LDFLAGS="-lstdc++" runConfigure ./configure \
 		--enable-llvm \
 		--disable-dri \
 		--disable-glx \