diff --git a/packages/python/system/dbus-python/build b/packages/python/system/dbus-python/build
index 695c4f4be1..9fbeacb242 100755
--- a/packages/python/system/dbus-python/build
+++ b/packages/python/system/dbus-python/build
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ $SCRIPTS/build dbus-glib
 
 . config/options.python
 
+# dbus-python fails to compile with GCC 4.5.0's link time optimization.
+  CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||" -e "s|-fwhole-program||"`
+  CXXFLAGS=`echo $CXXFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||" -e "s|-fwhole-program||"`
+  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||" -e "s|-fwhole-program||"`
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \