diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
index c85b5888d4..8074bf1025 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ 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
-	touch ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.c
-	${CC} ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.c -shared -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so
+	${CC} -x c /dev/null -nostartfiles -shared -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so
 	for d in libgcc ${RUNTIMETARGET}; do
 		echo "Configuring $d"
 		rm -rf ${B}/${TARGET_SYS}/$d/