diff --git a/gdb/.md5sum b/gdb/.md5sum
index afeb7aa86..b2ca02e1b 100644
--- a/gdb/.md5sum
+++ b/gdb/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 c9da266b884fb8fa54df786dfaadbc7a  gdb-6.8.tar.bz2
+5df490c58764ef07175fc45a6691da83  gdb.diff
diff --git a/gdb/Pkgfile b/gdb/Pkgfile
index b15411f01..cdb106c87 100644
--- a/gdb/Pkgfile
+++ b/gdb/Pkgfile
@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@
 
 name=gdb
 version=6.8
-release=1
-source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
+release=2
+source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-$version.tar.bz2 gdb.diff)
 
 build() {
     cd $name-$version
+
+    # fix the build with gcc 4.4:
+    patch -p1 -i $SRC/gdb.diff
+
     ./configure --prefix=/usr
     make
     make DESTDIR=$PKG install
diff --git a/gdb/gdb.diff b/gdb/gdb.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87d237c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/gdb.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -aur gdb-6.8.orig/gdb/eval.c gdb-6.8/gdb/eval.c
+--- gdb-6.8.orig/gdb/eval.c	2008-02-04 01:23:04.000000000 +0100
++++ gdb-6.8/gdb/eval.c	2009-06-11 16:05:46.018550469 +0200
+@@ -1647,6 +1647,8 @@
+ 	struct type *tmp_type;
+ 	int offset_item;	/* The array offset where the item lives */
+ 
++	memset (subscript_array, 0, sizeof (subscript_array));
++
+ 	if (nargs > MAX_FORTRAN_DIMS)
+ 	  error (_("Too many subscripts for F77 (%d Max)"), MAX_FORTRAN_DIMS);
+