diff --git a/base/gcc/gcc.conf b/base/gcc/gcc.conf
index 942c6e43e..0f7f6b83e 100644
--- a/base/gcc/gcc.conf
+++ b/base/gcc/gcc.conf
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ languages="c,c++"
 var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-c99"
 var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-long-long"
 
+# special features when glibc is the primary libc for the target
+if [ "$SDECFG_LIBC" = 'glibc' ]; then
+	# use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template static data
+	# members and inline function local statics
+	var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-gnu-unique-object"
+fi
+
+
 # build prerequisites
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-gmp=$( pkgprefix -r gmp )"
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--with-gmp-lib=$( pkgprefix -r libdir gmp )"