diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix
index b83d38d41efd..a60851fa7ba9 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/lv/lv/package.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
 
+  # Upstream needs quite a bit of porting to c23:
+  #   https://github.com/ttdoda/lv/issues/3
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-std=gnu17";
+
   preAutoreconf = "cd src";
   postAutoreconf = "cd ..";