diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
index 8074bf1025..d019b0790b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ do_configure () {
 	# libstdc++ isn't built yet so CXX would error not able to find it which breaks stdc++'s configure
 	# tests. Create a dummy empty lib for the purposes of configure.
 	mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}/dummylib
-	${CC} -x c /dev/null -nostartfiles -shared -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so
+	${CC} -x c /dev/null -c -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.o
+	${AR} rcs ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.a ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.o
 	for d in libgcc ${RUNTIMETARGET}; do
 		echo "Configuring $d"
 		rm -rf ${B}/${TARGET_SYS}/$d/