diff --git a/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.SlackBuild b/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.SlackBuild
index 3c27663337..c3f3eba6ce 100644
--- a/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Public domain.
 
 PRGNAM=itex2mml
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.3.19}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4.10}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -50,14 +50,27 @@ find . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-make CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS"
+if [[ "$RUBY" = "YES" ]]; then
+  MYRARCH=$(ruby -e 'print RbConfig::CONFIG["arch"]')
+fi
+# This fixes ruby bindings build, BINDIR, 
+sed -i \
+  -e "s|require\ \"rbconfig\";\ print\ |print Rb|" \
+  -e "s|RUBYDIR)|RUBYDIR) -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/${MYRARCH}|" \
+  -e "s|local/||" \
+  Makefile
+
+make clean
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+make
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
 make install BINDIR=$PKG/usr/bin
 
 if [[ "$RUBY" = "YES" ]]; then
   make ruby
-  ARCHDIR="$PKG`ruby -e 'require "rbconfig"; print Config::CONFIG["sitearchdir"]'`"
-  SITEDIR="$PKG`ruby -e 'require "rbconfig"; print Config::CONFIG["sitelibdir"]'`"
+  ARCHDIR="$PKG$(ruby -e 'print RbConfig::CONFIG["sitearchdir"]')"
+  SITEDIR="$PKG$(ruby -e 'print RbConfig::CONFIG["sitelibdir"]')"
   mkdir -p $ARCHDIR
   mkdir -p $SITEDIR
   make CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" install_ruby RUBY_SITEARCHDIR=$ARCHDIR RUBY_SITEDIR=$SITEDIR
diff --git a/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.info b/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.info
index f9859d0c85..387d5bf1f2 100644
--- a/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.info
+++ b/academic/itex2mml/itex2mml.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="itex2mml"
-VERSION="1.3.19"
+VERSION="1.4.10"
 HOMEPAGE="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MML.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/files/itexToMML.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="e8b364e3d4aa55cce43030f3cab06be7"
+DOWNLOAD="http://ponce.cc/slackware/sources/repo/itex2MML-1.4.10/itexToMML.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="043b9af57214839c2c8df1a25c08ce63"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""