diff --git a/packages/devel/pcre/build b/packages/devel/pcre/build
index 29456feb4c..a5d4560466 100755
--- a/packages/devel/pcre/build
+++ b/packages/devel/pcre/build
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
+# pcre fails building with LTO support on gcc-4.6
+  strip_lto
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
 mkdir -p m4 && do_autoreconf