diff --git a/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/gcc-own_compiler.patch b/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/gcc-own_compiler.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f007a4815fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/gcc-own_compiler.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+diff --git a/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi b/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi
+index 2376c285a..93ede18ff 100644
+--- a/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi
++++ b/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SFC = gfortran
+ MODDIROPT = -J
+ 
+ FFLAGS_CORE = -cpp -m64                                                                     \
+-              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -pedantic-errors -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
++              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -fallow-argument-mismatch -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
+               -fconvert=big-endian -frecord-marker=4 -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none
+ 
+ FFLAGS_FAST  = -O3 $(FFLAGS_CORE)                                       \
+diff --git a/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi-torque b/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi-torque
+index 0a16b46bc..3777b5998 100644
+--- a/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi-torque
++++ b/sysdep/Makedef.Linux64-gnu-ompi-torque
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SFC = gfortran
+ MODDIROPT = -J
+ 
+ FFLAGS_CORE = -cpp -m64                                                                     \
+-              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -pedantic-errors -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
++              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -fallow-argument-mismatch -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
+               -fconvert=big-endian -frecord-marker=4 -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none
+ 
+ FFLAGS_FAST  = -O3 $(FFLAGS_CORE)                                       \
+diff --git a/sysdep/Makedef.LinuxARM-gnu-ompi b/sysdep/Makedef.LinuxARM-gnu-ompi
+index 1fef7ca4c..73532170a 100644
+--- a/sysdep/Makedef.LinuxARM-gnu-ompi
++++ b/sysdep/Makedef.LinuxARM-gnu-ompi
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SFC = gfortran
+ MODDIROPT = -J
+ 
+ FFLAGS_CORE = -cpp                                                                          \
+-              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -pedantic-errors -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
++              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -fallow-argument-mismatch -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
+               -fconvert=big-endian -frecord-marker=4 -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none
+ 
+ FFLAGS_FAST  = -O3 $(FFLAGS_CORE)                                       \
+diff --git a/sysdep/Makedef.MacOSX-gnu-ompi b/sysdep/Makedef.MacOSX-gnu-ompi
+index ce12b1bad..17b53310b 100644
+--- a/sysdep/Makedef.MacOSX-gnu-ompi
++++ b/sysdep/Makedef.MacOSX-gnu-ompi
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SFC = gfortran
+ MODDIROPT = -J
+ 
+ FFLAGS_CORE = -cpp -m64                                                                     \
+-              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -pedantic-errors -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
++              -std=f2003 -fall-intrinsics -fallow-argument-mismatch -fimplicit-none -fmodule-private \
+               -fconvert=big-endian -frecord-marker=4 -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none    \
+               -ffpe-summary=none
diff --git a/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/package.py b/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/package.py
index 542b804ba38..c5d9980087c 100644
--- a/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/package.py
+++ b/repos/spack_repo/builtin/packages/scale/package.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class Scale(MakefilePackage):
     depends_on("parallel-netcdf")
 
     patch("fj-own_compiler.patch", when="%fj")
+    patch("gcc-own_compiler.patch", when="%gcc")
 
     parallel = False