diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
index fc86566b4833..3c2eb728ec7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 , glib, pango, libgnomeprint, pangoxsl, gtk}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "xmlroff-0.3.5";
+  #name = "xmlroff-0.3.5";
+  name = "xmlroff-0.3.98";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/xmlroff-0.3.5.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "4f03dffa0451c28e7c777f6ee1fa38da";
+    url = http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xmlroff/xmlroff-0.3.98.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "6c1d05b6480e98870751bf9102ea68e2";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [
@@ -19,4 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     gtk
     popt
   ];
+
+  configureFlags = "--disable-pangoxsl";
+
+  patches = [./xmlroff.patch];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/xmlroff.patch b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/xmlroff.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..16bd7b0a76da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/xmlroff.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruN xmlroff-0.3.98/Makefile.in xmlroff-0.3.98.new/Makefile.in
+--- xmlroff-0.3.98/Makefile.in	2006-05-30 17:46:37.000000000 +0200
++++ xmlroff-0.3.98.new/Makefile.in	2006-06-18 13:47:37.000000000 +0200
+@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
+ subdirs = @subdirs@
+ sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
+ target_alias = @target_alias@
+-SUBDIRS = pangoxsl libfo area fo datatype property expr util . examples docs
++SUBDIRS = libfo area fo datatype property expr util . examples docs
+ @PLATFORM_WIN32_TRUE@no_undefined = -no-undefined
+ INCLUDES = \
+ 	-DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"libfo\"	\