diff --git a/libraries/libixp/README b/libraries/libixp/README
index 6b40d1a101..0286f96ef7 100644
--- a/libraries/libixp/README
+++ b/libraries/libixp/README
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-libixp - A standalone client/server 9P library
- 
 libixp is a stand-alone client/server 9P library including ixpc
 client which behaves like wmiir in the past. It consists of less
 than 2000 lines of code (including ixpc).
- 
diff --git a/libraries/libixp/libixp-0.4-libdir.diff b/libraries/libixp/libixp-0.4-libdir.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e8c73b073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries/libixp/libixp-0.4-libdir.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+diff -Nur libixp-0.4.orig/mk/lib.mk libixp-0.4/mk/lib.mk
+--- libixp-0.4.orig/mk/lib.mk	2007-11-05 08:36:22.000000000 -0600
++++ libixp-0.4/mk/lib.mk	2009-08-03 00:20:42.479105075 -0500
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-PTARG = ${ROOT}/lib/${TARG}
++PTARG = ${ROOT}/@baselibdir@/${TARG}
+ LIB = ${PTARG}.a
+ OFILES = ${OBJ:=.o}
+ 
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
+ 
+ ${LIB}: ${OFILES}
+ 	echo AR $$($(ROOT)/util/cleanname $(BASE)/$@)
+-	mkdir ${ROOT}/lib 2>/dev/null || true
++	mkdir ${ROOT}/@baselibdir@ 2>/dev/null || true
+ 	${AR} $@ ${OFILES}
+ 
+ include ${ROOT}/mk/common.mk
diff --git a/libraries/libixp/libixp.SlackBuild b/libraries/libixp/libixp.SlackBuild
index 5085cb154e..115a481ed8 100644
--- a/libraries/libixp/libixp.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libixp/libixp.SlackBuild
@@ -34,10 +34,13 @@ OUTPUT=${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
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar -xzvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \
@@ -55,29 +58,32 @@ find . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-# Fix prefixes and cflags values
-sed -i \
-  -e 's:^PREFIX = /usr/local:PREFIX = /usr:' \
-  -e 's:^MAN = ${PREFIX}/share/man:MAN = /usr/man:' \
-  -e 's:^ETC = ${PREFIX}/etc:ETC = /etc:' \
-  -e 's:^CFLAGS =:CFLAGS += :' \
-  config.mk
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" make
+# Fix cflags value
+sed -i 's:^CFLAGS =:CFLAGS += :' config.mk
 
-# This is *needed* to install correctly under $PKG
-sed -i \
-  -e 's:^PREFIX = /usr:PREFIX = '${PKG}'/usr:' \
-  -e 's:^MAN = /usr/man:MAN = '${PKG}'/usr/man:' \
-  -e 's:^ETC = /etc:ETC = '${PKG}'/etc:' \
-  config.mk
-make install
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" make \
+  PREFIX=/usr \
+  LIBDIR=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+  MAN=/usr/man \
+  ETC=/etc
+
+# Fix hardcoded /usr/lib
+sed "s%@baselibdir@%lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX%g" $CWD/libixp-0.4-libdir.diff | patch -p1
+
+make install \
+  PREFIX=$PKG/usr \
+  LIBDIR=$PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+  MAN=$PKG/usr/man \
+  ETC=$PKG/etc
 
 # Erase "/etc", it's empty
 rmdir $PKG/etc
 
-(
-  find $PKG | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-  find $PKG | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
+( cd $PKG
+  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
 )
 
 ( cd $PKG/usr/man
@@ -86,12 +92,11 @@ rmdir $PKG/etc
 )
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cd libixp
-cp -a LICENSE LICENSE.p9p README $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a libixp/LICENSE* libixp/README $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
 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/libixp/libixp.info b/libraries/libixp/libixp.info
index cd0d9e17ce..ac1b649a6f 100644
--- a/libraries/libixp/libixp.info
+++ b/libraries/libixp/libixp.info
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ VERSION="0.4"
 HOMEPAGE="http://libs.suckless.org/libixp"
 DOWNLOAD="http://code.suckless.org/dl/libs/libixp-0.4.tar.gz"
 MD5SUM="59d9e918adffaf4413b32ac4f66724fd"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Antonio Hernández Blas"
 EMAIL="hba.nihilismus@gmail.com"
-APPROVED="David Somero"
+APPROVED="dsomero"
diff --git a/libraries/libixp/slack-desc b/libraries/libixp/slack-desc
index 4f7d89cafc..777a3397db 100644
--- a/libraries/libixp/slack-desc
+++ b/libraries/libixp/slack-desc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ libixp: client which behaves like wmiir in the past. It consists of less
 libixp: than 2000 lines of code (including ixpc).
 libixp: 
 libixp: Homepage: http://www.suckless.org/wiki/libs/libixp
-libixp: 
-libixp: 
-libixp: 
-libixp: 
+libixp:
+libixp:
+libixp:
+libixp: