diff --git a/wine.changes b/wine.changes
index ebc2118..dc4df23 100644
--- a/wine.changes
+++ b/wine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jun  3 05:25:36 UTC 2019 - Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com>
+
+- build with gcc8 for now, gcc9 seems to break wine.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun May 26 08:30:03 UTC 2019 - Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/wine.spec b/wine.spec
index 13c4f06..69ffca5 100644
--- a/wine.spec
+++ b/wine.spec
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Obsoletes:      wine-mp3 < %version
 Recommends:     wine-mp3
 %endif
 BuildRequires:  SDL2-devel
+BuildRequires:  gcc8
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:  openal-soft-devel
 BuildRequires:  openldap2-devel
@@ -230,6 +231,9 @@ export WIDL_TIME_OVERRIDE="0" 	# for reproducible builds.
 export RPM_OPT_FLAGS=`echo $RPM_OPT_FLAGS|sed -e 's/-fomit-frame-pointer//'`
 %endif
 
+if rpm -q gcc|grep gcc-9 ; then
+	export CC=gcc-8
+fi
 %ifarch aarch64
 # ARM64 now requires clang
 # https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/8fb8cc03c3edb599dd98f369e14a08f899cbff95