diff -Nru wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/changelog wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/changelog
--- wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/changelog	2013-08-27 22:25:37.000000000 +0000
+++ wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/changelog	2013-09-07 10:08:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.12.1-15+rpi1) jessie-staging; urgency=low
+
+  * Build with gcc/g++ 4.8 to avoid ICE.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sat, 07 Sep 2013 10:07:30 +0000
+
 wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.12.1-15) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fix race condition which could result in mmedia libraries going into more
diff -Nru wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/control wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/control
--- wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/control	2013-08-27 22:25:51.000000000 +0000
+++ wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/control	2013-09-07 10:08:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  zlib1g-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff5-dev, libsm-dev,
  libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev, libesd0-dev,
  autotools-dev, libexpat1-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~),
- libxt-dev, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev, libgconf2-dev
+ libxt-dev, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev, libgconf2-dev, gcc-4.8, g++-4.8
 Maintainer: wxWidgets Maintainers <freewx-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org>, Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
diff -Nru wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/rules wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/rules
--- wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/rules	2013-08-27 20:32:05.000000000 +0000
+++ wxwidgets2.8-2.8.12.1/debian/rules	2013-09-07 10:08:14.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 
 SHELL = /bin/bash
 
+export CC=gcc-4.8
+export CXX=g++-4.8
+
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
 include /usr/share/python/python.mk