diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix
index cd1c640bad8c..fe7912226952 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostscript/package.nix
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   '';
 
   configureFlags = [
+    "CFLAGS=-std=gnu17"
     "--with-system-libtiff"
     "--without-tesseract"
   ]