diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/146.patch b/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/146.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ad1b030e1a46..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/146.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-From b901236261dc717dc08ed10f63e2d5cd3f3031f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Bart=C5=82omiej=20Piotrowski?= <b@bpiotrowski.pl>
-Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:46:06 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with giflib >= 5.1.0.
-
----
- image.c | 4 ++++
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/image.c b/image.c
-index e62a69f..7eec544 100644
---- a/image.c
-+++ b/image.c
-@@ -278,7 +278,11 @@ bool img_load_gif(img_t *img, const fileinfo_t *file)
- 		}
- 	} while (rec != TERMINATE_RECORD_TYPE);
- 
-+#if defined(GIFLIB_MAJOR) && GIFLIB_MAJOR >= 5 && GIFLIB_MINOR >= 1
-+	DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
-+#else
- 	DGifCloseFile(gif);
-+#endif
- 
- 	if (err && !file->loaded)
- 		warn("corrupted gif file: %s", file->name);
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/default.nix
index b62bbb57f642..e7e52f91b499 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/sxiv/default.nix
@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, imlib2, giflib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, libX11, imlib2, giflib, libexif }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "sxiv-1.2";
+  version = "1.3-git";
+  name = "sxiv-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.2.tar.gz";
-    name = "${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1wwcxy2adc67xd8x6c2sayy1cjcwrv2lvv1iwln7y4w992gbcxmc";
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "git@github.com:muennich/sxiv.git";
+    rev = "f55d9f4283f7133ab5a137fc04ee19d1df62fafb";
+    sha256 = "85f734f40fdc837514b72694de12bac92fe130286fa6f1dc374e94d575ca8280";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./146.patch ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ libX11 imlib2 giflib ];
-
-  prePatch = ''sed -i "s@/usr/local@$out@" Makefile'';
+  postUnpack = ''
+    substituteInPlace $sourceRoot/Makefile \
+      --replace /usr/local $out
+  '';
 
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 imlib2 giflib libexif ];
   meta = {
     description = "Simple X Image Viewer";
     homepage = "https://github.com/muennich/sxiv";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/default.nix
index 5b19323f9434..53f978551cdd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, x11, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libpng, bzip2, pkgconfig }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, x11, libjpeg, libtiff, giflib, libpng, bzip2, pkgconfig }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "imlib2-1.4.6";
@@ -8,10 +8,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0x1j0ylpclkp8cfpwfpkjywqz124bqskyxbw8pvwzkv2gmrbwldg";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ x11 libjpeg libtiff libungif libpng bzip2 ];
+  buildInputs = [ x11 libjpeg libtiff giflib libpng bzip2 ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
+  # From
+  # https://github.com/PhantomX/slackbuilds/blob/master/imlib2/patches/imlib2-giflib51.patch
+  patches = [ ./giflib51.patch ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     substituteInPlace imlib2-config.in \
       --replace "@my_libs@" ""
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/giflib51.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/giflib51.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97eaeb0b96e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib2/giflib51.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+diff -ruN imlib2-1.4.6.orig/src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c imlib2-1.4.6/src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c
+--- imlib2-1.4.6.orig/src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c	2013-12-21 10:16:10.000000000 +0000
++++ imlib2-1.4.6/src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c	2014-05-27 09:52:35.857291512 +0000
+@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
+ #endif
+    if (fd < 0)
+       return 0;
+-   gif = DGifOpenFileHandle(fd);
++   gif = DGifOpenFileHandle(fd, NULL);
+    if (!gif)
+      {
+         close(fd);
+@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@
+              h = gif->Image.Height;
+              if (!IMAGE_DIMENSIONS_OK(w, h))
+                {
+-                  DGifCloseFile(gif);
++                  DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+                   return 0;
+                }
+              rows = malloc(h * sizeof(GifRowType *));
+              if (!rows)
+                {
+-                  DGifCloseFile(gif);
++                  DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+                   return 0;
+                }
+              for (i = 0; i < h; i++)
+@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
+                   rows[i] = malloc(w * sizeof(GifPixelType));
+                   if (!rows[i])
+                     {
+-                       DGifCloseFile(gif);
++                       DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+                        for (i = 0; i < h; i++)
+                          {
+                             if (rows[i])
+@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
+         im->data = (DATA32 *) malloc(sizeof(DATA32) * w * h);
+         if (!im->data)
+           {
+-             DGifCloseFile(gif);
++             DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+              free(rows);
+              return 0;
+           }
+@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
+                        last_per = (int)per;
+                        if (!(progress(im, (int)per, 0, last_y, w, i)))
+                          {
+-                            DGifCloseFile(gif);
++                            DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+                             for (i = 0; i < h; i++)
+                               {
+                                  free(rows[i]);
+@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
+      {
+         progress(im, 100, 0, last_y, w, h);
+      }
+-   DGifCloseFile(gif);
++   DGifCloseFile(gif, NULL);
+    for (i = 0; i < h; i++)
+      {
+         free(rows[i]);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index acc4be8c410b..2559032b07eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10447,9 +10447,7 @@ let
                                     })
                                  );
 
-  sxiv = callPackage ../applications/graphics/sxiv {
-    giflib = giflib_5_0;
-  };
+  sxiv = callPackage ../applications/graphics/sxiv { };
 
   bittorrentSync = callPackage ../applications/networking/bittorrentsync { };