diff --git a/minicom/.md5sum b/minicom/.md5sum
index 2427b48fa..4764642c1 100644
--- a/minicom/.md5sum
+++ b/minicom/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+e1a7644e6acfcf2a67f65c032167bcf6  minicom-2.1-gcc4.patch
 1c8f3b247c38fb16c3c2170df9fc102a  minicom-2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/minicom/Pkgfile b/minicom/Pkgfile
index 3e52d3579..9452c0b55 100644
--- a/minicom/Pkgfile
+++ b/minicom/Pkgfile
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 # Description: A menu driven communications program
 # URL: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
-# Maintainer: Simone Rota, sip at varlock dot com
+# Maintainer: Simone Rota, sip at crux dot nu
 # Packager: sten, nick dot steeves at shaw dot ca
 # Depends on:
 
 name=minicom
 version=2.1
-release=1
-source=(http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/123/minicom-$version.tar.gz)
+release=2
+source=(http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/123/minicom-$version.tar.gz \
+	$name-$version-gcc4.patch)
 
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
+	patch -p1 < ../$name-$version-gcc4.patch
 	./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls
 	make
 	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
diff --git a/minicom/minicom-2.1-gcc4.patch b/minicom/minicom-2.1-gcc4.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b85238859
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minicom/minicom-2.1-gcc4.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ur minicom-2.1-orig/src/window.c minicom-2.1/src/window.c
+--- minicom-2.1-orig/src/window.c	2005-05-28 19:59:42.000000000 -0400
++++ minicom-2.1/src/window.c	2005-05-28 20:00:22.000000000 -0400
+@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
+ static char *CS, *SF, *SR, *VB, *BL;
+ static char *VE, *VI, *KS, *KE;
+ static char *CD, *CL, *IC, *DC;
+-static char *BC, *CR, *NL;
++static char *CR, *NL;
+ #if ST_LINE
+ static char *TS, *FS, *DS;
+ #endif