diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime_4.5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime_4.5.1.bb
index 9eb658b12c..9d4e158fb5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime_4.5.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime_4.5.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PR = "r4"
+PR = "r5"
 
 require gcc-${PV}.inc
 require gcc-configure-runtime.inc
@@ -9,3 +9,8 @@ SRC_URI_append = "file://fortran-cross-compile-hack.patch"
 ARCH_FLAGS_FOR_TARGET += "-isystem${STAGING_INCDIR}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-libunwind-exceptions"
+
+# gcc 4.5 ends up in ICE when using -feliminate-dwarf2-dups in libstdc++
+# compiling pre compiled headers so we remove this option when compiling
+# to workaround it
+CXXFLAGS := "${@oe_filter_out('-feliminate-dwarf2-dups', '${CXXFLAGS}', d)}"