diff --git a/libraries/wcslib/wcslib.SlackBuild b/libraries/wcslib/wcslib.SlackBuild
index 2282b99a50..da958e2213 100644
--- a/libraries/wcslib/wcslib.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/wcslib/wcslib.SlackBuild
@@ -22,12 +22,15 @@
 #  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
+# 20220419 bkw: Modified by SlackBuilds.org, BUILD=3:
+# - fix dir permissions in package (e.g. usr/man was 0775).
+# - get rid of static lib.
 
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=wcslib
 VERSION=${VERSION:-7.7}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-3}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -39,9 +42,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
+find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \+
+find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \+
 
 # Paths for PGPLOT in case it is not set properly
 #PGPLOT_DIR="/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pgplot"
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ chown -R root:root .
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-./configure \
+sh ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
@@ -96,17 +98,20 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man*/*
 
-# Give root write permission on regular files as
-# many of them get 444 permissions by default
-find $PKG -type f -exec chmod u+w \{\} \;
+# 20220419 bkw: --disable-static accepted and ignored, so:
+rm -f $PKG/usr/lib*/*.a
+
+# Give root write permission on regular files as many of them get 444
+# permissions by default.
+# 20220419 bkw: also, a lot of the directories are 775.
+find $PKG -type f -exec chmod u+w  {} \+
+find $PKG -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \+
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
-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
-
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild