diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
index cb9ee9e7f067..cc00857f33dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
@@ -2,8 +2,22 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "cpio-2.9";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://gnu/cpio/cpio-2.9.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "01s7f9hg8kgpis96j99hgkiqgdy53pm7qi7bhm3fzx58jfk5z6mv";
   };
+
+  patches = [
+    # Make it compile on GCC 4.3.
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = "http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/app-arch/cpio/files/cpio-2.9-gnu-inline.patch?rev=1.1";
+      sha256 = "1167hrq64h9lh3qhgasm2rivfzkkgx6fik92b017qfa0q61ff8c3";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/;
+    description = "A program to create or extract from cpio archives";
+  };
 }