diff --git a/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.SlackBuild b/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.SlackBuild
index 01206cc07d..92d5be38b9 100644
--- a/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by thorsten
 
 PRGNAM=avr-gdb
-VERSION=${VERSION:-7.6.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-7.8.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf gdb-$VERSION avr-gdb-build-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/gdb-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/gdb-$VERSION.tar.xz
 mkdir avr-gdb-build-$VERSION
 cd avr-gdb-build-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
@@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --infodir=/usr/info \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
   --target=avr \
-  --disable-texinfo \
+  --disable-nls \
+  --enable-languages=c,c++ \
+  --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 \
+  --with-system-gdbinit=/etc/gdb/gdbinit \
   --program-prefix="avr-" \
   --program-suffix="" \
   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
@@ -76,6 +79,9 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | gr
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
+rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*.info*
+
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 for file in COPYING* ChangeLog MAINTAINERS README*; do
   cp ../gdb-$VERSION/$file $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
@@ -84,10 +90,10 @@ cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 # Remove useless stuff
 rm -rf $PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/libiberty.a
-rm -rf $PKG/usr/info
-rm -rf $PKG/usr/include
-rm -rf $PKG/usr/share
-rm -rf $PKG/usr/man/man7
+rm -rf $PKG/usr/include/gdb
+rm -rf $PKG/usr/share/gdb
+rm -rf $PKG/usr/share/info
+rm -rf $PKG/usr/share/man
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
diff --git a/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.info b/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.info
index fa9f2d056d..18c9d11808 100644
--- a/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.info
+++ b/development/avr-gdb/avr-gdb.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="avr-gdb"
-VERSION="7.6.2"
+VERSION="7.8.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
-DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.6.2.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="496399e96654fc0f899a5c964bc1f0f8"
+DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.8.1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="8072be87a94be0936bc3b4b6941b0862"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="avr-gcc"
-MAINTAINER="tjohann"
+MAINTAINER="Thorsten"
 EMAIL="thorsten.johannvorderbrueggen@t-online.de"