diff --git a/development/scite/scite.SlackBuild b/development/scite/scite.SlackBuild
index 0706d878ec..2353545adb 100644
--- a/development/scite/scite.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/scite/scite.SlackBuild
@@ -3,16 +3,15 @@
 # Written by Iskar Enev <iskar.enev[@]gmail.com>
 
 PRGNAM=scite
-VERSION=2.03
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+VERSION=2.12
+ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
-# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
     arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
-    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
        *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
   esac
 fi
@@ -61,8 +60,12 @@ make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 ( cd $PKG/usr/bin ; ln -sf SciTE scite )
 
-find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+( cd $PKG
+  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+)
 
 cd $TMP/scite
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/html
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ cp -a $PKG/usr/share/scite/*.html $PKG/usr/share/scite/*.png \
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/man/man1
-gzip -9c doc/scite.1 > $PKG/usr/man/man1/scite.1.gz
+cat doc/scite.1 | gzip -9c > $PKG/usr/man/man1/scite.1.gz
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
@@ -80,4 +83,3 @@ cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
-
diff --git a/development/scite/scite.info b/development/scite/scite.info
index d3b2a46290..43b471cf63 100644
--- a/development/scite/scite.info
+++ b/development/scite/scite.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="scite"
-VERSION="2.03"
+VERSION="2.12"
 HOMEPAGE="http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scite203.tgz"
-MD5SUM="f70f237180a556e287c17423b6c45a24"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scite212.tgz"
+MD5SUM="8868c06c1cfb248abd92cb3956bb5ba1"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Iskar Enev"