diff --git a/app-text/openjade/openjade-1.3.2-r6.ebuild b/app-text/openjade/openjade-1.3.2-r6.ebuild
index 6f9aba742a7a3..f6bd9b76f5902 100644
--- a/app-text/openjade/openjade-1.3.2-r6.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/openjade/openjade-1.3.2-r6.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit autotools sgml-catalog eutils flag-o-matic multilib
 
-DESCRIPTION="Jade is an implementation of DSSSL - an ISO standard for formatting SGML and XML documents"
+DESCRIPTION="Jade is an implementation of DSSSL for formatting SGML and XML documents"
 HOMEPAGE="http://openjade.sourceforge.net"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/openjade/${P}.tar.gz"
 
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_configure() {
+	# avoids dead-store elimination optimization
+	# leading to segfaults on GCC 6
+	# bug #592590
+	append-cxxflags -fno-lifetime-dse
+
 	# We need Prefix env, bug #287358
 	export CONFIG_SHELL="${CONFIG_SHELL:-${BASH}}"
 	econf \