diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index dea2dc912985ba96d06296496349abd75fa66d8e..8288bd7f9b026924ac448a372c8ee85ebd109074 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ HBNOLIBCXXCFLAGS =
 else
 # Make sure we don't link to libstdc++
 # No threadsafe statics in C++ as we do it ourselves
-HBCFLAGS += -fno-threadsafe-statics
-HBNOLIBCXXFLAGS = -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
+HBCFLAGS += -fno-threadsafe-statics -fno-exceptions
+HBNOLIBCXXFLAGS = -fno-rtti
 endif
 
 if HAVE_OT