diff --git a/academic/verilog/verilog.SlackBuild b/academic/verilog/verilog.SlackBuild
index f572815607..3fdb6bea87 100644
--- a/academic/verilog/verilog.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/verilog/verilog.SlackBuild
@@ -4,16 +4,14 @@
 #Written by Stephen Van Berg stephen_van_berg@earlicker.com.
 
 PRGNAM=verilog      
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.7}
 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
@@ -46,11 +44,11 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
-find . \
+find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
  -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
+ -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
diff --git a/academic/verilog/verilog.info b/academic/verilog/verilog.info
index 2c2e0de5b4..3386e5387d 100644
--- a/academic/verilog/verilog.info
+++ b/academic/verilog/verilog.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="verilog"
-VERSION="0.9.4"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/"
-DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.9/verilog-0.9.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="013f1397338fd984ec711250408e43a6"
+VERSION="0.9.7"
+HOMEPAGE="http://iverilog.icarus.com/"
+DOWNLOAD="ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.9/verilog-0.9.7.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="1a8c3f13360078a5e266a0c852bbec57"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""