diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ee9f4ee4..db627422 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 TARGET_BUILD	:= build-llvm
 # Force the version of gcc. Some archs are still using gcc 4.6
-GCC_VERSION     := 4.8
-# $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}' g++ | sed -rne 's,^([0-9]+:)?([0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*$$,\2,p')
+GCC_VERSION     := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}' g++ | sed -rne 's,^([0-9]+:)?([0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*$$,\2,p')
 LLVM_VERSION	:= 3.5
 SONAME_EXT      := 1
 DEBIAN_REVISION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne 's,^Version: .*-(.*),\1,p')