diff --git a/cppcheck.changes b/cppcheck.changes
index a23ee38..b45e994 100644
--- a/cppcheck.changes
+++ b/cppcheck.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 29 12:13:06 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- switch on Tumbleweed temporarily to gcc 12 to avoid
+  "allocator_traits<A>::rebind_alloc<A::value_type> must be A"
+  (as mentioned on https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/porting_to.html)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar 15 20:23:58 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/cppcheck.spec b/cppcheck.spec
index 5afc333..457f4e8 100644
--- a/cppcheck.spec
+++ b/cppcheck.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ Source:         https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/archive/refs/tags/%{version}.
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  docbook-xsl-stylesheets
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
+BuildRequires:  gcc12-c++
+%else
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  libqt5-linguist-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  python3-base
@@ -77,6 +81,9 @@ doesn't see.
 %autosetup -p1
 
 %build
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500
+export CXX=/usr/bin/g++-12
+%endif
 %cmake \
   -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-DNDEBUG %{optflags}" \
   -DFILESDIR="%{_datadir}/%{name}" \