diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d5f78faea60daf8fa2eb980a0e3ac64eb6d12db7..d8a697d2c66eea9a74919cc676af90ea5021c3bc 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ endif(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
 # enable warnings and disallow non-standard language
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Wno-ignored-qualifiers")
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-O0 -g")
-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "-O3 -g") # -O2 would not trade speed for size, neither O2/3 use fast-math 
+set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "-O3 -g") # -O2 would not trade speed for size, neither O2/3 use fast-math
+set(CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS "-std=legacy")
 
 # clang produces a lot of unecessary warnings without this:
 add_compile_options("$<$<OR:$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:Clang>,$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:AppleClang>>:-Wno-nonportable-include-path>")