diff --git a/test/zip_iterator_test2_std_tuple.cpp b/test/zip_iterator_test2_std_tuple.cpp
index 95eff87..91d7748 100644
--- a/test/zip_iterator_test2_std_tuple.cpp
+++ b/test/zip_iterator_test2_std_tuple.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #include <boost/config.hpp>
 
-#if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_HDR_TUPLE) && !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_TEMPLATES)
+// libstdc++ from gcc 4.4 has a broken std::tuple that cannot be constructed from a compatible tuple,
+// e.g. std::tuple<int, double> from std::tuple<int const&, double const&>.
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_HDR_TUPLE) && !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_TEMPLATES) && \
+    (!defined(BOOST_LIBSTDCXX_VERSION) || BOOST_LIBSTDCXX_VERSION >= 40500)
 
 #include <tuple>
 #include <boost/fusion/adapted/std_tuple.hpp>
@@ -14,8 +17,8 @@
 #else
 
 int main()
- {
- return 0;
- }
+{
+    return 0;
+}
 
 #endif