diff --git a/package/benejson/0001-c-std.patch b/package/benejson/0001-c-std.patch
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+++ b/package/benejson/0001-c-std.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Some older toolchains do not recognize c11 as a valid standard.
+Since the code actually builds well with c99, use that instead.
+
+The only two non-standard features used are // comments
+and for(int i ...) declarations in C.
+
+Signed-off-by: Alex Suykov <alex.suykov@gmail.com>
+
+--- a/SConstruct
++++ b/SConstruct
+@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ mydir = os.getcwd()
+ #Set default C++ building flags for both libraries and executables
+ default_env = Environment(ENV = os.environ)
+ default_env.Append(CPPPATH = [mydir + '/include'])
+-default_env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -Wall -pedantic')
+-default_env.Append(CFLAGS = ' -std=c11')
+-default_env.Append(CXXFLAGS = ' -std=c++11')
++default_env.Append(CFLAGS = ' -Wall')
++default_env.Append(CFLAGS = ' -std=c99')
+ #default_env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer')
+ default_env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -O0 -g')
+