I'm in full agreement here. -isystem is the reason why qt5-qtbase is
currently broken on SunOS:
http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/pkgsrc/public/reports/upstream-trunk32/20160216.2232/qt5-qtbase-5.5.1nb2/build.log
The issue is that the OS stddef.h is being picked up before GCC's due
to "-isystem /usr/include" overriding the default include order, so
::max_align_t is never defined.
It's not just an issue on SunOS, the same problem is causing nodejs to
currently fail on Darwin/gcc when using GCC 4.9 too.
+1 on removing -isystem completely.