diff --git a/log4cplus.spec b/log4cplus.spec
index ea0ab6e..b9cd318 100644
--- a/log4cplus.spec
+++ b/log4cplus.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ using log4cplus logging framework.
 %setup -q %{?prever:-n %{name}-%{version}-%{prever}}
 
 %build
+export CFLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS
+export CXXFLAFS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -std=c++11"
 %configure
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/liblog4cplus.{a,la}
 %changelog
 * Tue Dec 16 2014 Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> - 1.1.3-0.1.rc3
 - update to 1.1.3rc3
+- build the library with c++11 support
 
 * Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.2-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild