diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
index 21461cc4259538..8e8854e25bc8b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,28 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, SDL, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libXpm }:
+{ stdenv, fetchhg, SDL, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libXpm, automake,
+  autoconf, pkgconfig }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "SDL_image";
-  version = "1.2.10";
+  version = "1.2.10-20110925";
 
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.libsdl.org/projects/${pname}/release/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0xhqw56xgc0rn3ziccirib8ai2whbbidjmvig527n9znjlg5vq3m";
+  src = fetchhg {
+    url = http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image;
+    tag = "bb611e7cb1e5";
+    sha256 = "0003inlvvmlc2fyrzy01lwhhfb90ppsar2skaa7x6rhmpc71dakz";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [SDL libpng libjpeg libtiff libungif libXpm];
 
+  buildNativeInputs = [ automake autoconf pkgconfig ];
+
+  patches = [ ./jpeg-linux.diff ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    ./autogen.sh
+    '';
+
   postInstall = ''
     sed -i -e 's,"SDL.h",<SDL/SDL.h>,' \
     -e 's,"SDL_version.h",<SDL/SDL_version.h>,' \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fd4cdf7f7a495d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# HG changeset patch
+# User Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud@ya.ru>
+# Date 1316994786 -14400
+# Node ID 4c3cd9a4b0602c45c11ec62bcc1f5562ea071d70
+# Parent  bb611e7cb1e58cc37a6773a22a15c74b55e3d267
+Fix compilation on Linux
+
+Submitted upstream, see http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179
+
+diff -r bb611e7cb1e5 -r 4c3cd9a4b060 IMG_jpg.c
+--- a/IMG_jpg.c	Thu Aug 25 02:24:35 2011 -0400
++++ b/IMG_jpg.c	Mon Sep 26 03:53:06 2011 +0400
+@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <jpeglib.h>
+ 
+-#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 80
++#ifdef JPEG_TRUE /* MinGW version of jpeg-8.x renamed TRUE to JPEG_TRUE etc. */
+ 	typedef JPEG_boolean boolean;
+ 	#define TRUE JPEG_TRUE
+ 	#define FALSE JPEG_FALSE