diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
index 530b04e8b42..47814ef2f25 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
@@ -1,27 +1,29 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchcvs }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libffcall-${version}";
-  version = "2009-05-27";
-  src = fetchcvs {
-    cvsRoot = ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/libffcall";
-    module = "ffcall";
-    date = version;
-    sha256 = "097pv94495njppl9iy2yk47z5wdwvf7swsl88nmwrac51jibbg4i";
+  version = "1.10";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    urls = [
+      # Europe
+      "http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/ffcall-${version}.tar.gz"
+      # USA
+      "ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-${version}.tar.gz"
+    ];
+    sha256 = "0gcqljx4f8wrq59y13zzigwzaxdrz3jf9cbzcd8h0b2br27mn6vg";
   };
 
-  configurePhase = ''
-    for i in ./configure */configure; do
-      cwd="$PWD"
-      cd "$(dirname "$i")";
-      ( test -f Makefile && make distclean ) || true
-      ./configure --prefix=$out
-      cd "$cwd"
-    done
-  '';
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wa,--noexecstack";
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-shared"
+    "--disable-static"
+  ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Foreign function call library";
+    homepage = http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   };