diff --git a/libraries/wvstreams/slack-desc b/libraries/wvstreams/slack-desc
index c664a682b8..caa6a9fa13 100644
--- a/libraries/wvstreams/slack-desc
+++ b/libraries/wvstreams/slack-desc
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
 
          |-----handy-ruler--------------------------------------------------|
 wvstreams: WvStreams (networking library in C++)
-wvstreams: 
+wvstreams:
 wvstreams: It aims to be an efficient, secure, easy-to-use,
 wvstreams: and OS-independent library for doing network
 wvstreams: applications development.
-wvstreams: 
+wvstreams:
 wvstreams: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvStreams
-wvstreams: 
-wvstreams: 
-wvstreams: 
-wvstreams: 
+wvstreams:
+wvstreams:
+wvstreams:
+wvstreams:
diff --git a/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.SlackBuild b/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.SlackBuild
index bd08026cbf..5102d94227 100644
--- a/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by Vincent Batts, vbatts@batts.mine.nu
 
 PRGNAM=wvstreams
-VERSION=4.4.1
+VERSION=4.6
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
 set -e
@@ -40,23 +43,27 @@ find . \
 
 # configure doesn't support disabling static libraries
 # Don't manually remove them either, as wvdial won't build then :)
+# * Build without dbus support, since it requires the static dbus lib
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
+  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
   --disable-testgui \
-  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux \
-  --host=$ARCH-slackware-linux 
+  --without-dbus \
+  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 ( cd $PKG
-  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || exit 1
-  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
+  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || exit 1
+  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
 )
 
 # Let's not clobber the config file
@@ -68,7 +75,9 @@ mv $PKG/etc/uniconf.conf $PKG/etc/uniconf.conf.new
 )
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a COPYING.LIB ChangeLog README README.TESTS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a \
+  ChangeLog LICENSE README* \
+    $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
@@ -76,4 +85,4 @@ cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.info b/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.info
index a02c5be7d8..1471ad97cc 100644
--- a/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.info
+++ b/libraries/wvstreams/wvstreams.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="wvstreams"
-VERSION="4.4.1"
+VERSION="4.6"
 HOMEPAGE="http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvStreams"
-DOWNLOAD="http://wvstreams.googlecode.com/files/wvstreams-4.4.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="907b0cba8931553d848620ea16f006b9"
+DOWNLOAD="http://wvstreams.googlecode.com/files/wvstreams-4.6.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="4ee8ccfe6dfc29bf952d58fa23626c97"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Vincent Batts"
 EMAIL="vbatts@batts.mine.nu"
 APPROVED="rworkman"