diff --git a/flac/.md5sum b/flac/.md5sum
index 87f12114e..e1400445c 100644
--- a/flac/.md5sum
+++ b/flac/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 153c8b15a54da428d1f0fadc756c22c7  flac-1.2.1.tar.gz
+6632677f2e3b0103256023ba76115845  flac.diff
diff --git a/flac/Pkgfile b/flac/Pkgfile
index 07bc1bf08..0dfde5cee 100644
--- a/flac/Pkgfile
+++ b/flac/Pkgfile
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@
 
 name=flac
 version=1.2.1
-release=1
-source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+release=2
+source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz
+        $name.diff)
 
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
+
+	# fix compilation with gcc 4.3
+	patch -Np1 -i $SRC/$name.diff
+
 	./configure --prefix=/usr
 	make
 	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
diff --git a/flac/flac.diff b/flac/flac.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a8251351e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flac/flac.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -aur flac-1.2.1.orig/examples/cpp/encode/file/main.cpp flac-1.2.1/examples/cpp/encode/file/main.cpp
+--- flac-1.2.1.orig/examples/cpp/encode/file/main.cpp	2007-09-13 17:58:03.000000000 +0200
++++ flac-1.2.1/examples/cpp/encode/file/main.cpp	2008-10-23 18:30:02.575321637 +0200
+@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
++#include <cstring>
+ #include "FLAC++/metadata.h"
+ #include "FLAC++/encoder.h"
+