diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 8b685035c4c4339add470ee271656fd06b56f53f..1572e2d086dc0b57cf8cca0d0537ce59a835e9d6 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1199,6 +1199,7 @@ autoconf_share/makeversion -text
 autoconf_share/variants.bgfen -text
 autoconf_share/variants.bgfen0 -text
 autoconf_share/variants.frontend-4 -text
+autoconf_share/variants.lioffen -text
 cmake/CMakeSettings.cmake -text
 cmake/FindBlitz.cmake -text
 cmake/FindBoost.cmake -text
diff --git a/autoconf_share/variants.lioffen b/autoconf_share/variants.lioffen
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd7e8b5d7dd42fbef1370c9b49ef4b94b3e9f556
--- /dev/null
+++ b/autoconf_share/variants.lioffen
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+gnu.compiler.conf:	CXX="$CCACHE /usr/bin/g++"
+
+gnu.compiler.aipspp.var: --with-casacore=/app/casacore/casacore-0.3.0patched --without-wcs