diff --git a/srcpkgs/herbstluftwm/template b/srcpkgs/herbstluftwm/template
index 62fdad3912a..a984b467e11 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/herbstluftwm/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/herbstluftwm/template
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ distfiles="http://herbstluftwm.org/tarballs/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=7e2ffc30b7911407230a5eeb61e044cea78557999107d372bc2dbc3d82d0ae27
 
 do_build() {
-	make COLOR=0 CC=$CC LD=$CC CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=c99"
+	make COLOR=0 CXX=$CXX CC=$CC LD=$CC LDXX=$CXX CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=c99"
 }
 do_install() {
 	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} COLOR=0 install