diff --git a/starlab-4.4.3-gcc44.patch b/starlab-4.4.3-gcc44.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1049fb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/starlab-4.4.3-gcc44.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Fix build with GCC 4.4
+
+Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
+
+diff -up starlab-4.4.3/src/std/pgetopt.C.gcc44 starlab-4.4.3/src/std/pgetopt.C
+--- starlab-4.4.3/src/std/pgetopt.C.gcc44	2009-03-01 14:34:04.000000000 +0100
++++ starlab-4.4.3/src/std/pgetopt.C	2009-03-01 14:42:08.000000000 +0100
+@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ local inline char *get_version(const cha
+ 
+     if (!cvs_id) return NULL;
+ 
+-    char *start = strstr(cvs_id, "Revision:");
++    const char *start = strstr(cvs_id, "Revision:");
+     if (!start) return NULL;
+ 
+     start += 9;
+@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ local inline char *get_version(const cha
+ 
+     if (start - cvs_id > strlen(cvs_id)) return NULL;
+ 
+-    char *end = start;
++    const char *end = start;
+     while (*end > ' ') end++;
+ 
+     if (*end == ' ') {
diff --git a/starlab.spec b/starlab.spec
index 45c1d29..366b408 100644
--- a/starlab.spec
+++ b/starlab.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           starlab
 Version:        4.4.3
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Summary:        A Software Environment for Collisional Stellar Dynamics
 
 Group:          Applications/Multimedia
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Patch1:         starlab-4.4.3-libdeps.patch
 Patch2:         starlab-4.4.3-buildcwd.patch
 Patch3:         starlab-4.4.3-autoconf263.patch
 Patch4:         starlab-4.4.3-tstarplot.patch
+Patch5:         starlab-4.4.3-gcc44.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
@@ -288,6 +289,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Mar 1 2009 Lubomir Rintel (Fedora Astronomy) <lkundrak@fedoraproject.org> - 4.4.3-5
+- Fix build with GCC 4.4
+
 * Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.4.3-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild