diff --git a/package/base/gzip/gcc34.patch b/package/base/gzip/gcc34.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2044e2c31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/gzip/gcc34.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruN gzip-1.2.4a/getopt.c gzip-1.2.4a-new/getopt.c
+--- gzip-1.2.4a/getopt.c	1993-08-17 20:24:08.000000000 +0200
++++ gzip-1.2.4a-new/getopt.c	2004-05-18 22:01:12.830713688 +0200
+@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
+ #if __STDC__ || defined(PROTO)
+ extern char *getenv(const char *name);
+ extern int  strcmp (const char *s1, const char *s2);
+-extern int  strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, int n);
++extern int  strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);
+ 
+ static int my_strlen(const char *s);
+ static char *my_index (const char *str, int chr);