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	2013-09-08 21:40:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.12.1-15+rpi2) jessie-staging; urgency=low
+
+  * Make libwxbase2.8-dev depend on gcc/g++ 4.8 to avoid build failures with rdeps.
+  * Remove mo files in clean target to prevent unrepresentable changes to source
+    errors
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:27:00 +0000
+
+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	2013-09-08 21:26:52.000000000 +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
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 Package: libwxbase2.8-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
-Depends: wx2.8-headers (= ${binary:Version}), libwxbase2.8-0 (= ${binary:Version}), libc6-dev | libc-dev, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: wx2.8-headers (= ${binary:Version}), libwxbase2.8-0 (= ${binary:Version}), libc6-dev | libc-dev, ${misc:Depends}, gcc-4.8, g++-4.8
 Suggests: wx2.8-doc, gettext
 Description: wxBase library (development) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
  wxBase is a collection of C++ classes providing basic data structures
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	2013-09-08 21:41:20.000000000 +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
@@ -663,6 +666,7 @@
 	      config.guess config.sub
 	rm -rf include/wx-$(release)
 	find -name '*.py[co]' -delete
+	rm -f locale/*.mo
 
 install_arch: build-arch $(install_all_arch)