diff --git a/dev-libs/boehm_gc/boehm_gc-8.2.8.recipe b/dev-libs/boehm_gc/boehm_gc-8.2.8.recipe
index baa14738e..c2125e2c2 100644
--- a/dev-libs/boehm_gc/boehm_gc-8.2.8.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/boehm_gc/boehm_gc-8.2.8.recipe
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
 	2011 Ludovic Courtes
 	2018 Petter A. Urkedal"
 LICENSE="Boehm"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/releases/download/v$portVersion/gc-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="7649020621cb26325e1fb5c8742590d92fb48ce5c259b502faf7d9fb5dabb160"
 SOURCE_DIR="gc-$portVersion"
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage boehm_gc$secondaryArchSuffix \
 BUILD()
 {
 	# fork from non-main threads doesn't work properly at present
-	export CFLAGS="-D NO_TEST_HANDLE_FORK"
+	export CFLAGS="-D NO_TEST_HANDLE_FORK -O2 -g"
 
 	autoreconf -vfi
 	runConfigure ./configure --enable-large-config