diff --git a/interpreter/CppInterOp/lib/CppInterOp/CMakeLists.txt b/interpreter/CppInterOp/lib/CppInterOp/CMakeLists.txt
index abdb6d3f9a026..20e17d20052c4 100644
--- a/interpreter/CppInterOp/lib/CppInterOp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/interpreter/CppInterOp/lib/CppInterOp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ if(NOT WIN32 AND NOT EMSCRIPTEN)
   list(APPEND link_libs dl)
 endif()
 
-if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU" AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9.0)
-  list(APPEND link_libs stdc++fs)
+if(ROOT_NEED_STDCXXFS)
+    list(APPEND link_libs stdc++fs)
 endif()
 
 # Get rid of libLLVM-X.so which is appended to the list of static libraries.