diff --git a/icu.icu6439.bare.elif.patch b/icu.icu6439.bare.elif.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55bc823
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu.icu6439.bare.elif.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- icu.orig/source/layoutex/ParagraphLayout.cpp	2009-02-03 16:29:07.000000000 +0000
++++ icu/source/layoutex/ParagraphLayout.cpp	2009-02-03 16:29:19.000000000 +0000
+@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
+ 
+     return nullLanguageCode;
+ }
+-#elif
++#else
+ 
+ // TODO - dummy implementation for right now...
+ le_int32 ParagraphLayout::getLanguageCode(const Locale *locale)
diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index 093c2b9..bf573e0 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:      icu
 Version:   4.0.1
-Release:   1%{?dist}
+Release:   2%{?dist}
 Summary:   International Components for Unicode
 Group:     Development/Tools
 License:   MIT
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Patch2:  icu.icuXXXX.virama.prevnext.patch
 Patch3:  icu.icu6008.arm.padding.patch
 Patch4:  icu.icu6213.worstcase.patch
 Patch5:  icu.icu6284.strictalias.patch
+Patch6:  icu.icu6439.bare.elif.patch
 
 %description
 Tools and utilities for developing with icu.
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ Group:   Documentation
 %patch3 -p1 -b .icu6008.arm.padding.patch
 %patch4 -p1 -b .icu6213.worstcase.patch
 %patch5 -p1 -b .icu6284.strictalias.patch
+%patch6 -p1 -b .icu6439.bare.elif.patch
 
 %build
 cd source
@@ -134,6 +136,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc source/__docs/%{name}/html/*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Feb 03 2009 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 4.0.1-2
+- fix bare elif for gcc-4.4
+
 * Fri Jan 16 2009 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 4.0.1-1
 - 4.0.1 release