Compiliation problem on 1.3.6

[John]

Trying to compile stable 1.3.6, using GCC 4.1.2 produces:

...
Compiling testnotify.c...
Linking testnotify...
Making all in pdftops...
Compiling Annot.cxx...
cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector"
make[1]: *** [Annot.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

No idea what to do about that. Looking around gcc info, I found that this is actually gcc option, (including 'man gcc' shows it), but no idea why it fails on compiling CUPS.

Suggestions appreciated.
John