diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
index ab6bcfba6a1..532ef2a45d5 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchsvn, fetchurl, cups, zlib }:
-let rev = "315"; in
+{stdenv, fetchurl, cups, zlib}:
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "splix-svn-${rev}";
-  src = fetchsvn {
-    # We build this from svn, because splix hasn't been in released in several years
-    # although the community has been adding some new printer models.
-    url = "svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/splix/code/splix";
-    rev = "r${rev}";
-    sha256 = "16wbm4xnz35ca3mw2iggf5f4jaxpyna718ia190ka6y4ah932jxl";
+  name = "splix-2.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/splix/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0bwivrwwvh6hzvnycpzqs7a0capgycahc4s3v9ihx552fgy07xwp";
   };
 
-  preBuild = ''
+  patches = [ ./splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch ];
+
+  preBuild=''
     makeFlags="V=1 DISABLE_JBIG=1 CUPSFILTER=$out/lib/cups/filter CUPSPPD=$out/share/cups/model"
   '';
 
-  buildInputs = [ cups zlib ];
+  buildInputs = [cups zlib];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://splix.sourceforge.net;
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5ccdcb2514c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Fixing build with gcc 4.5
+
+http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318581
+
+downloaded from
+http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/gentoo/portage/net-print/splix/files/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
+
+--- splix-old/src/ppdfile.cpp
++++ splix-new/src/ppdfile.cpp
+@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
+  * Opérateur d'assignation
+  * Assignment operator
+  */
+-void PPDFile::Value::operator = (const PPDFile::Value::Value &val)
++void PPDFile::Value::operator = (const PPDFile::Value &val)
+ {
+     if (_preformatted)
+         delete[] _preformatted;