diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/iostream b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/iostream
index ff78e1cfb87..0c62e9aeb7f 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/iostream
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/iostream
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
 
   // For construction of filebuffers for cout, cin, cerr, clog et. al.
   // When the init_priority attribute is usable, we do this initialization
-  // in the compiled library instead (src/c++98/ios_init.cc).
+  // in the compiled library instead (src/c++98/globals_io.cc).
 #if !__has_attribute(__init_priority__)
   static ios_base::Init __ioinit;
 #endif
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/globals_io.cc b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/globals_io.cc
index 04fecb22aeb..bfd808b5bbd 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/globals_io.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/globals_io.cc
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
   fake_wostream wclog;
 #endif
 
+#include "ios_base_init.h"
+
 _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE_VERSION
 } // namespace
 
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_base_init.h b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_base_init.h
index 1c71038f4a1..b600ec3298e 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_base_init.h
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_base_init.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 // sufficiently early (so that it happens before any other global
 // constructor when statically linking with libstdc++.a), instead of
 // doing so in (each TU that includes) <iostream>.
+// This needs to be done in the same TU that defines the stream objects.
 #if __has_attribute(init_priority)
 static ios_base::Init __ioinit __attribute__((init_priority(90)));
 #endif
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_init.cc b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_init.cc
index 4016fcab785..1b5132f1c2d 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_init.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/ios_init.cc
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
   extern wostream wclog;
 #endif
 
-#include "ios_base_init.h"
-
   ios_base::Init::Init()
   {
     if (__gnu_cxx::__exchange_and_add_dispatch(&_S_refcount, 1) == 0)
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/17_intro/static.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/17_intro/static.cc
index ffa7ecb7077..a0d6ed081f8 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/17_intro/static.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/17_intro/static.cc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// { dg-do link { target c++11 } }
+// { dg-do run { target c++11 } }
 // { dg-require-static-libstdcxx }
 // { dg-options "-static-libstdc++" }