diff --git a/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/cifparse-obj-7.025-r1.ebuild b/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/cifparse-obj-7.025-r1.ebuild
index be87825947b7f..a30d3b402d530 100644
--- a/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/cifparse-obj-7.025-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/cifparse-obj-7.025-r1.ebuild
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ src_prepare() {
 	epatch \
 		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-makefile.patch \
 		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gcc4.3.patch \
-		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gcc4.7.patch
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gcc4.7.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gcc5.patch
 
 	sed \
 		-e "s:^\(CC=\).*:\1$(tc-getCC):g" \
diff --git a/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/files/cifparse-obj-7.025-gcc5.patch b/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/files/cifparse-obj-7.025-gcc5.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6b2f797ccc155
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sci-libs/cifparse-obj/files/cifparse-obj-7.025-gcc5.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+ etc/platform.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/etc/platform.sh b/etc/platform.sh
+index ff0ab51..1b56ab1 100755
+--- a/etc/platform.sh
++++ b/etc/platform.sh
+@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ case `uname -s` in
+ #   Check if it is a Linux platform
+     Linux)
+ #     Check if it is GCC version 4.x
+-      gcc_ver=`gcc --version | grep -e " 4\."`
++      gcc_ver=`gcc --version | grep -e " [45]\."`
+       if [[ -z $gcc_ver ]]
+       then
+ #       It is not GCC version 4.x. Check if it is GCC version 3.x