diff --git a/packages/devel/glib/build b/packages/devel/glib/build
index 049d9b2bf0..2e6ba3ffbf 100755
--- a/packages/devel/glib/build
+++ b/packages/devel/glib/build
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ $SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/build zlib
 $SCRIPTS/build glib-host
 
+# glib 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
 
 mkdir -p .build-target