diff --git a/lang/gcc34/Makefile b/lang/gcc34/Makefile
index 1093d30d5ebb..9710f238d65a 100644
--- a/lang/gcc34/Makefile
+++ b/lang/gcc34/Makefile
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--disable-nls \
 		--program-suffix=${SUFFIX} \
 		--libdir=${TARGLIB} \
 		--with-gxx-include-dir=${TARGLIB}/include/c++/
+CONFIGURE_ENV=	RANLIB=:
 MAKE_ARGS+=	MAKEINFOFLAGS="--no-split"
 .if defined(WANT_SHAREDLIBS)
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-shared
diff --git a/lang/gcc34/files/patch-ranlib b/lang/gcc34/files/patch-ranlib
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d21bbcfdd428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/gcc34/files/patch-ranlib
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Recent versions of FreeBSD default to installing libraries with 0444
+permissions which causes ranlib, that GCC rans after installation, to
+fail.  Just replace RANLIB by a dummy program to avoid that.
+
+Index: gcc/Makefile.in
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/Makefile.in,v
+retrieving revision 1.1223.2.23
+diff -u -3 -p -r1.1223.2.23 Makefile.in
+--- gcc/Makefile.in	24 Feb 2005 09:26:57 -0000	1.1223.2.23
++++ gcc/Makefile.in	31 Aug 2005 20:15:42 -0000
+@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ FLEX = @FLEX@
+ FLEXFLAGS =
+ AR = ar
+ AR_FLAGS = rc
+-RANLIB = @RANLIB@
++RANLIB = echo 
+ 
+ # -------------------------------------------
+ # Programs which operate on the build machine