diff --git a/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh b/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
index 2e8f81d94..7112ad319 100755
--- a/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
+++ b/java/crossbuild/build-linux-centos.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/slc5-devtoolset.repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern
 sudo wget -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/RPM-GPG-KEYs/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
 sudo yum -y install devtoolset-2
 
-wget http://gflags.googlecode.com/files/gflags-2.0-no-svn-files.tar.gz
-tar xvfz gflags-2.0-no-svn-files.tar.gz; cd gflags-2.0; scl enable devtoolset-2 ./configure; scl enable devtoolset-2 make; sudo make install
+wget https://github.com/gflags/gflags/archive/v2.0.tar.gz -O gflags-2.0.tar.gz
+tar xvfz gflags-2.0.tar.gz; cd gflags-2.0; scl enable devtoolset-2 ./configure; scl enable devtoolset-2 make; sudo make install
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
 
 # set java home so we can build rocksdb jars