diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4623785fce2..fe3cf1aadf6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 - Fixed bug #50999 (unaligned memory access in dba_fetch()). (Felipe)
 - Fixed bug #50731 (Inconsistent namespaces sent to functions registered with
   spl_autoload_register). (Felipe)
+- Fixed bug #50358 (Compile failure compiling ext/phar/util.lo). (Felipe)
 
 ?? ??? 20??, PHP 5.3.2
 - Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.22. (Ilia)
diff --git a/ext/phar/tar.h b/ext/phar/tar.h
index 6a38faa0b76..2532c61984a 100644
--- a/ext/phar/tar.h
+++ b/ext/phar/tar.h
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@
 # define PHAR_TAR_PACK
 #elif defined(__sgi)
 # define PHAR_TAR_PACK
-#else
+#elif defined(__GNUC__)
 # define PHAR_TAR_PACK __attribute__((__packed__))
+#else
+# define PHAR_TAR_PACK
 #endif
 
 #if defined(__sgi)