diff --git a/development/mold/mold.SlackBuild b/development/mold/mold.SlackBuild
index 38ce9a750c..a3e7f04f5a 100644
--- a/development/mold/mold.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/mold/mold.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=mold
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.5.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -79,9 +79,19 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" make
-make install DESTDIR=$PKG \
-             PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 MANDIR=/usr/man DOCDIR=/usr/doc
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+  cmake \
+    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=/usr/man \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
+  make
+  make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+cd ..
+
 
 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
@@ -89,7 +99,6 @@ 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
 
-mv $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a \
   README.md \
   $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/development/mold/mold.info b/development/mold/mold.info
index 2fccb2bace..58562545db 100644
--- a/development/mold/mold.info
+++ b/development/mold/mold.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="mold"
-VERSION="1.5.1"
+VERSION="1.6.0"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rui314/mold"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rui314/mold/archive/v1.5.1/mold-1.5.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="a81cc2431ab795bc2afe7401d9c0483e"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rui314/mold/archive/v1.6.0/mold-1.6.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="f6eb0adbc0ebd5dc75aed698bddd1a0e"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""