diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/Makefile b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/Makefile
index 4332fb4df2..4a5d59b956 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/Makefile
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/Makefile
@@ -4,3 +4,8 @@
 # with the libc.a being *constructed* in $(objdir).  As a work-around,
 # we add this to each native-compile.
 native-CFLAGS := $(native-CFLAGS) -L/lib
+# This flag is necessary because GCC now tries to call _Q_{mul, etc...}
+# instead of doing the stuff the hard way.  For now, printf_fp.o, __vfscanf.o,
+# and difftime.o don't work because of this.  The long-term fix is to actually
+# implement what they're doing, but for the short-term, we must do this.
+sysdep-CFLAGS := $(sysdep-CFLAGS) -mhard-quad-float