diff --git a/eclass/wine.eclass b/eclass/wine.eclass
index 1f5885d89c6f5..6d4de6d87183e 100644
--- a/eclass/wine.eclass
+++ b/eclass/wine.eclass
@@ -188,9 +188,8 @@ wine_src_configure() {
 	# may segfault at runtime if used (bug #931329)
 	filter-flags -Wl,--gc-sections
 
-	# avoid gcc-15's c23 default for now (bug #943849)
-	# TODO: verify if still needed and limit to old until cleanup
-	append-cflags -std=gnu17
+	# avoid gcc-15's c23 default with older wine (bug #943849)
+	ver_test -lt 10 && append-cflags -std=gnu17
 
 	# Wine uses many linker tricks that are unlikely to work
 	# with anything but bfd or lld (bug #867097)