diff -Nru vtk-5.8.0/debian/changelog vtk-5.8.0/debian/changelog
--- vtk-5.8.0/debian/changelog	2013-07-09 06:42:22.000000000 +0000
+++ vtk-5.8.0/debian/changelog	2013-09-15 00:55:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+vtk (5.8.0-14+rpi1) jessie-staging; urgency=low
+
+  * Build with gcc/g++ 4.8 to avoid ICE
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:55:43 +0000
+
 vtk (5.8.0-14) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Mathieu Malaterre ]
diff -Nru vtk-5.8.0/debian/control vtk-5.8.0/debian/control
--- vtk-5.8.0/debian/control	2013-07-09 06:36:58.000000000 +0000
+++ vtk-5.8.0/debian/control	2013-09-15 00:55:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  libboost-all-dev, mpi-default-dev, libnetcdf-dev, libmysqlclient-dev, libpq-dev, libxpm-dev,
  libavformat-dev, libavutil-dev, libavcodec-dev, libswscale-dev, libgl2ps-dev, libsqlite3-dev,
  libfreetype6-dev, ftgl-dev, libqt4-dev, python-support (>= 0.5.3), libxml2-dev, pkg-config,
- libhdf5-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
+ libhdf5-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~), gcc-4.8, g++-4.8
 Build-Depends-Indep: libdigest-md5-perl, doxygen-latex, graphviz, gnuplot-nox, ghostscript
 XS-Python-Version: current
 Uploaders: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>, Dominique Belhachemi <domibel@debian.org>,
diff -Nru vtk-5.8.0/debian/rules vtk-5.8.0/debian/rules
--- vtk-5.8.0/debian/rules	2013-07-09 06:36:58.000000000 +0000
+++ vtk-5.8.0/debian/rules	2013-09-15 00:55:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk
 
+export CC=gcc-4.8
+export CXX=g++-4.8
+
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH+=:$(CURDIR)/Build/bin
 export TCLLIBPATH=$(CURDIR)/Build/Wrapping/Tcl/