diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
index ac3805732..a1ac9162b 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@
 // Does the compiler support type_traits?
 #ifndef EIGEN_HAS_TYPE_TRAITS
 #if EIGEN_MAX_CPP_VER>=11 && (EIGEN_HAS_CXX11 || EIGEN_COMP_MSVC >= 1700) \
-  && ((!EIGEN_COMP_GNUC_STRICT) || EIGEN_GNUC_AT_LEAST(5, 1))
-    // ^^ Full support of type traits was added only to GCC 5.1.0.
+  && ((!EIGEN_COMP_GNUC_STRICT) || EIGEN_GNUC_AT_LEAST(5, 1)) \ // Full support of type traits was added only to GCC 5.1.0.
+  && ((!defined(__GLIBCXX__))   || __GLIBCXX__ > 20150626)      // The last release of 4.x libstdc++
 #define EIGEN_HAS_TYPE_TRAITS 1
 #define EIGEN_INCLUDE_TYPE_TRAITS
 #else