diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9171200f3b9..36959390d36 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1750,3 +1750,10 @@ liblucene++-contrib.so.0 Lucene++-3.0.6_1
 libeolian.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
 libecore_avahi.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
 libephysics.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
+libgunicode.so.4 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libgutils.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libgioftp.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libfontforge.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libgdraw.so.5 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libfontforgeexe.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
index 84128a77a22..2ef0ba21ed7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=3
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
 makedepends="libltdl-devel python-devel zlib-devel pango-devel readline-devel
- giflib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel libxml2-devel
+ giflib-devel>=5.1.0 libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel libxml2-devel
  libspiro-devel hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils"
 depends="hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils"
 short_desc="Create and modify PostScript, TrueType and SVG fonts"
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ checksum="3d7fa1e9e05ccae2a949bf78ae4bfa5ac166d91a370cd1073ed8c51710bc5f00
 pre_configure() {
         sed '/fontforge_package_name/s/^#//' -i configure.ac
 	./autogen.sh --verbose
+	# make it build with giflib-5.1.0
+	# see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/5076#comment:2
+	sed -i "/DGifCloseFile/s:gif:&, NULL:g" gutils/gimagereadgif.c
 }
 
 post_install() {