diff --git a/lang/gcc/Makefile b/lang/gcc/Makefile
index c86c9aab3c94..f922d3d62181 100644
--- a/lang/gcc/Makefile
+++ b/lang/gcc/Makefile
@@ -99,7 +99,10 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--disable-nls \
 		${ICONV_CONFIGURE_ARG} \
 		--with-pkgversion="FreeBSD Ports Collection" \
 		--with-system-zlib
-MAKE_ARGS+=	MAKEINFOFLAGS="--no-split"
+# On FreeBSD 11 and above AWK uses the locale's collating order which
+# runs into a bug in GCC (PR 211742).
+MAKE_ARGS+=	MAKEINFOFLAGS="--no-split" \
+		AWK="${SETENV} LC_ALL=C ${AWK:Q}"
 USE_LDCONFIG=	${TARGLIB}
 PLIST_SUB=	GCC_VERSION=${GCC_VERSION} \
 		GNU_HOST=${CONFIGURE_TARGET} \
diff --git a/lang/gcc/distinfo b/lang/gcc/distinfo
index b618f6667a4f..1b3d6dc0646e 100644
--- a/lang/gcc/distinfo
+++ b/lang/gcc/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1471124229
 SHA256 (gcc-4.8.5.tar.bz2) = 22fb1e7e0f68a63cee631d85b20461d1ea6bda162f03096350e38c8d427ecf23
 SIZE (gcc-4.8.5.tar.bz2) = 86165587