diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 254baef5..af46f1fb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+llvm-toolchain-3.4 (1:3.4~+rc3-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove explicit dep on gcc 4.8
+
+ -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:36:58 +0100
+
 llvm-toolchain-3.4 (1:3.4~+rc3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New testing upstream release
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5baa71be..5db0caa8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), flex, bison, dejagnu, tcl, expect,
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, chrpath, python-dev,
     libedit-dev, swig, python-sphinx, ocaml-nox, binutils-dev, libcloog-isl-dev,
     libisl-dev (>= 0.11.1), libjsoncpp-dev,
-    lcov, procps, help2man, gcc-4.8, g++-4.8, dh-ocaml
+    lcov, procps, help2man, dh-ocaml
+# gcc-4.8, g++-4.8, 
 Build-Conflicts: oprofile, ocaml
 Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Homepage: http://www.llvm.org/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index cfffaa73..54bba52c 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	:= 3.4
 SONAME_EXT      := 1
 DEBIAN_REVISION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne 's,^Version: .*-(.*),\1,p')