diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 613b943b00..9963cac443 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -116,3 +116,7 @@ sys-kernel/coreos-firmware -savedconfig
 
 # Make kmod support kernel modules compressed via lzma(xz)
 sys-apps/kmod lzma
+
+# net-libs/nghttp2 should be built with -cxx to avoid issues with boost 1.65.
+# configure script is not able to check if Boost:ASIO library exists.
+net-libs/nghttp2 -cxx