http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60789
--- Comment #1 from David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov at gmail dot com> --- Found the culprit. I had CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS for gcc ./configure. Thus probably setting CFLAGS causes `-lm` to vanish in libstdc++v3 math conftests.