diff --git a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
index f9faa45b9e..0432044dc0 100644
--- a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for hdf5
 
-# Copyright 2007-2009  LukenShiro <lukenshiro@ngi.it>
+# Copyright 2007-2010  LukenShiro <lukenshiro@ngi.it>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=hdf5
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.4_patch1}
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -44,19 +44,23 @@ elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
-DOCFILES="COPYING MANIFEST README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt"
+SRCVERSION=$(echo $VERSION | tr "_" "-")
+DOCFILES="COPYING README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt \
+  release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt \
+  release_docs/INSTALL"
 
 set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
-cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$SRCVERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$SRCVERSION.tar.bz2
+cd $PRGNAM-$SRCVERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
 
+# --with-ssl option removed
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CPPFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
@@ -67,7 +71,6 @@ CPPFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --with-pthread \
   --enable-cxx \
   --enable-fortran \
-  --with-ssl \
   --with-zlib \
   --without-szlib \
   --enable-static=no \
diff --git a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
index 52312e0459..60ac6f9056 100644
--- a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
+++ b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="hdf5"
-VERSION="1.8.4"
+VERSION="1.8.4_patch1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf5/"
-DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.4.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="c13599cfff871948f4d00e19ac410b86"
+DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.4-patch1.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="b19f4dfbf654a2af3653c492fc1c7513"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="LukenShiro"
 EMAIL="lukenshiro@ngi.it"
-APPROVED="rworkman"
+APPROVED="dsomero"