diff --git a/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.41-r8.ebuild b/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.41-r8.ebuild
index ba5fe6af84227..ac7648927e8db 100644
--- a/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.41-r8.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.41-r8.ebuild
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ do_run_test() {
 
 	if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE} == "binary" ]] ; then
 		# ignore build failures when installing a binary package #324685
-		do_compile_test "" "$@" 2>/dev/null || return 0
+		CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS="" do_compile_test "" "$@" 2>/dev/null || return 0
 	else
 		ebegin "Performing simple compile test for ABI=${ABI}"
 		if ! do_compile_test "" "$@" ; then