This is essential when building with -nodefaultlibs.
In some CMake versions (noticed in 3.5.1), the same libraries are picked up from CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES in some exceptional situations (if CXX probing failed, due to libc++ not being built yet, the libraries from CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES are used for linking the target library), but not at all in other newer CMake versions (3.10).
This is similar to what already is done in libcxxabi in SVN r302760 and libcxx in SVN r312498.