diff --git a/texlive-stdc++11.patch b/texlive-stdc++11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b03cf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/texlive-stdc++11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up texlive-2012/source/texk/dvisvgm/dvisvgm-1.0.12/src/DVIToSVG.cpp.stdc++11 texlive-2012/source/texk/dvisvgm/dvisvgm-1.0.12/src/DVIToSVG.cpp
+--- texlive-2012/source/texk/dvisvgm/dvisvgm-1.0.12/src/DVIToSVG.cpp.stdc++11	2012-11-07 14:24:46.000000000 +0100
++++ texlive-2012/source/texk/dvisvgm/dvisvgm-1.0.12/src/DVIToSVG.cpp	2012-11-07 20:49:12.440647310 +0100
+@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void DVIToSVG::beginPage (unsigned n, In
+ 		Message::mstream().indent(0);
+ 		Message::mstream(false, Message::MC_PAGE_NUMBER) << "processing page " << n << " [" << c[0] << ']';
+ 		Message::mstream().indent(1);
+-		_svg.appendToDoc(new XMLCommentNode(" This file was generated by dvisvgm "VERSION_STR" "));
++		_svg.appendToDoc(new XMLCommentNode(" This file was generated by dvisvgm "));
+ 		_svg.appendToDoc(new XMLCommentNode(" " + datetime() + " "));
+ 	}
+ }
diff --git a/texlive.spec b/texlive.spec
index 9abb2d1..723b857 100644
--- a/texlive.spec
+++ b/texlive.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-%global source_date 20121024_r28063
+%global source_date 20121107_r28202
 %global tl_version 2012
-%global tl_rel 5
+%global tl_rel 6
 %global tl_release %{tl_rel}.%{source_date}%{?dist}
 %global tl_noarch_release %{tl_rel}%{?dist}
 %global source_name texlive-%{source_date}-source
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Obsoletes: texlive-texmf-errata-east-asian < %{tl_version}, texlive-texmf-errata
 Obsoletes: texlive-texmf-errata-latex < %{tl_version}, texlive-texmf-errata-xetex < %{tl_version}
 Conflicts: texlive-dvips = 2007
 Patch1: tl-kpfix.patch
+Patch2: texlive-stdc++11.patch
 Source0: %{source_name}.tar.xz
 Source1: tl2rpm.c
 Source2: texlive.tlpdb
@@ -173124,13 +173125,14 @@ distribution.
 xz -dc %{SOURCE0} | tar x
 [ -e %{source_name} ] && mv %{source_name} source
 %patch1 -p0
+%patch2 -p1
 for l in `unxz -c %{SOURCE3} | tar t`; do
 ln -s %{_texdir}/licenses/$l $l
 done
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing"
-export CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
+export CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -std=c++11"
 cd source
 PREF=`pwd`/inst
 mkdir -p work
@@ -297862,6 +297864,10 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/*.so
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Nov  7 2012 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 2012-6-20121107
+- use -std=c++11 for all C++ apps in texlive to avoid symbol problems
+(thanks to Jakub Jelinek)
+
 * Sun Nov  4 2012 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 2012-5-20121024
 - don't conflict with latexmk (#868996)
 - unify versioning for both binary and noarch subpackages