--- espeak-1.43.ebuild
+++ espeak-1.43.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI="3"
 
-inherit eutils
+inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
 
 MY_P="${P}-source"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${MY_P}.zip"
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 }
 
 src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-ldflags.patch
 	cd src
 	# gentoo uses portaudio 19.
 	if use portaudio; then
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@
 }
 
 src_compile() {
+	tc-export CXX
 	cd src
 	emake PREFIX="${EPREFIX}/usr" AUDIO="$(get_audio)" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" all || die "Compilation failed"