diff --git a/thin-provisioning-tools.changes b/thin-provisioning-tools.changes
index ddee1f8..050b186 100644
--- a/thin-provisioning-tools.changes
+++ b/thin-provisioning-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 11 11:21:15 UTC 2016 - rguenther@suse.com
+
+- Explicitely build with -std=gnu++98 to avoid all sorts of
+  non-C++11 conforming code.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb  6 09:04:44 UTC 2016 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/thin-provisioning-tools.spec b/thin-provisioning-tools.spec
index d455fba..3738a62 100644
--- a/thin-provisioning-tools.spec
+++ b/thin-provisioning-tools.spec
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ A suite of tools for thin provisioning on Linux.
 autoreconf -fiv
 %configure \
   --bindir=%{_sbindir} \
-  --with-optimisation="%{optflags}"
+  --with-optimisation="%{optflags} -std=gnu++98"
 # In generated Makefile V=@ is used, in order to achieve verbose build ve
 # must override it as V=""
 make %{?_smp_mflags} V=""