diff --git a/package/x86/apmd/gcc34.patch b/package/x86/apmd/gcc34.patch
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+++ b/package/x86/apmd/gcc34.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+
+The usual fixes to make the code leagal C for gcc-3.4.
+
+  - Rene Rebe <rene@rocklinux.org>
+
+--- ./apmd.c.vanilla	2004-05-26 17:53:37.000000000 +0200
++++ ./apmd.c	2004-05-26 17:56:55.000000000 +0200
+@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@
+ 
+ 
+ #ifdef APM_TRACE
+-#define ADEBUG(lev,args...) \
+-    if (APM_TRACE>=lev) syslog(LOG_DEBUG, __FUNCTION__ ": " args)
++#define ADEBUG(lev, text, args...) \
++    if (APM_TRACE>=lev) syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "%s : " text, __FUNCTION__, args)
+ #else
+ #define ADEBUG(args...)
+ #endif