diff --git a/base/grep/grep.conf b/base/grep/grep.conf
index 6ad622ee7..a32d890cb 100644
--- a/base/grep/grep.conf
+++ b/base/grep/grep.conf
@@ -19,5 +19,3 @@ var_append patchfiles ' ' "`match_source_file -p patch`"
 
 # because we do not have pcre in Stage-2 or on the boot disk ...
 var_append confopt " " "--bindir=/bin --disable-perl-regexp"
-var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' '-std=gnu99'
-
diff --git a/base/grep/grep.desc b/base/grep/grep.desc
index 49151f7ca..106d69af5 100644
--- a/base/grep/grep.desc
+++ b/base/grep/grep.desc
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 [M] The OpenSDE Community <list@opensde.org>
 
 [C] base/tool
-[F] DIETLIBC
+[F] DIETLIBC GNU99
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable