diff --git a/system/fio/fio.SlackBuild b/system/fio/fio.SlackBuild
index 80911402e3..aac38f069e 100644
--- a/system/fio/fio.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/fio/fio.SlackBuild
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for fio
 
-# Copyright 2012  Binh Nguyen <binhvng@gmail.com>
-# Copyright 2015-2016 Brenton Earl <brent@exitstatusone.com>
+# Copyright 2012 Binh Nguyen <binhvng@gmail.com>
+# Copyright 2015-2017 Brenton Earl <brent@exitstatusone.com>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=fio
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.15}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.18}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ else
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
-set -eu
+set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
@@ -70,12 +70,19 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-make install DESTDIR=$PKG prefix="/usr"
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix="/usr" \
+  --extra-cflags="$CFLAGS"
+
+make
+make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a COPYING HOWTO README REPORTING-BUGS examples/ $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/system/fio/fio.info b/system/fio/fio.info
index e1510e2b58..c299e721f8 100644
--- a/system/fio/fio.info
+++ b/system/fio/fio.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="fio"
-VERSION="2.15"
+VERSION="2.18"
 HOMEPAGE="http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-2.15.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="743368ecea46bcae69e4dfd442a6f469"
+DOWNLOAD="http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-2.18.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="f8758f25024643283c52c29e6606c0bd"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""