diff --git a/libraries/libsoup/README b/libraries/libsoup/README
index 19ac28d2f8..348dfefcef 100644
--- a/libraries/libsoup/README
+++ b/libraries/libsoup/README
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 Soup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part of
 a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation, but the SOAP code
 was later removed (and then later partially reimplemented...).
+
+Optional dependencies for libsoup-gnome are libproxy and gnome-keyring.
diff --git a/libraries/libsoup/libsoup.SlackBuild b/libraries/libsoup/libsoup.SlackBuild
index eebd325b32..9e57107e32 100644
--- a/libraries/libsoup/libsoup.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libsoup/libsoup.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=libsoup
 VERSION=2.30.1
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
 
+if pkg-config --exists libproxy-1.0 gnome-keyring-1 ; then
+ GNOME=yes ; else GNOME=no
+fi
+
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var/lib \
   --disable-static \
-  --without-gnome \
+  --with-gnome=$GNOME \
   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
 make