diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 92b59672e..70740a1c8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ cmake (2.8.0-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Increase timeout of BootstrapTest to 2 hours so it no longer times out
     on s390 or armel (patch bootstraptest_increase_timeout.diff).
   * Fix GNU.cmake file used on Hurd. Thanks to Pino Toscano for the patch.
+  * Build with g++-4.4 on hppa. May solve FTBFS (segfault likely due to
+    miscompilation) reported in #556653.
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>  Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:05:59 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 40d853453..1974536e8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
 Uploaders: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
 DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.3), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libxmlrpc-c3-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
- libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0)
+ libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), g++-4.4 [hppa]
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/cmake.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cmake.git;a=summary
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index fbe1f77b2..215ef4d82 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ ifeq ($(shell arch),parisc64)
 CFLAGS += -ffunction-sections
 endif
 
+# Build with gcc 4.4 on hppa
+ifeq ($(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH),hppa)
+export CC=gcc-4.4
+export CXX=g++-4.4
+endif
+
 $(BUILD_FLAGS_FILE):
 	touch $@
 	echo 'set(CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH YES CACHE BOOL "Skip rpath" FORCE)'          >> $@