diff --git a/development/ocaml/configure.patch b/development/ocaml/configure.patch
index a57b19fb56..31309d3511 100644
--- a/development/ocaml/configure.patch
+++ b/development/ocaml/configure.patch
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
---- configure_old	2014-05-23 22:45:22.000000000 +0200
-+++ configure	2014-05-23 22:45:31.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1612,6 +1612,10 @@
-     nativecccompopts="$nativecccompopts -fomit-frame-pointer";;
- esac
- 
-+# Add additional flags from the environment
-+bytecccompopts="$bytecccompopts $CFLAGS"
-+nativecccompopts="$nativecccompopts $CFLAGS"
-+
- # Finish generated files
- 
- cclibs="$cclibs $mathlib"
+diff -Naur ocaml-4.08.1.orig/configure ocaml-4.08.1/configure
+--- ocaml-4.08.1.orig/configure	2019-08-05 19:32:44.000000000 +0200
++++ ocaml-4.08.1/configure	2019-09-06 10:35:25.454923040 +0200
+@@ -12424,7 +12424,7 @@
+ -fno-builtin-memcmp";
+       internal_cflags="$gcc_warnings" ;; #(
+   gcc-*) :
+-    common_cflags="-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv";
++    common_cflags="@CFLAGS@ -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv";
+       internal_cflags="$gcc_warnings" ;; #(
+   msvc-*) :
+     common_cflags="-nologo -O2 -Gy- -MD"
diff --git a/development/ocaml/ocaml.SlackBuild b/development/ocaml/ocaml.SlackBuild
index 1f0ea4e709..4b03d252f6 100644
--- a/development/ocaml/ocaml.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/ocaml/ocaml.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ocaml
-VERSION=${VERSION:-4.03.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-4.08.1}
+MANVER=${MANVER:-4.08}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -70,17 +71,15 @@ 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 {} \;
 
-patch < $CWD/configure.patch
+sed "s|@CFLAGS@|$SLKCFLAGS -fcommon|" $CWD/configure.patch | patch -p1
 
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" ./configure \
+./configure \
   --prefix /usr \
   --libdir /usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/ocaml \
-  --host $ARCH-slackware-linux
+  --mandir /usr/man
 
 make -j1 world.opt
-make -j1 install \
-  PREFIX=$PKG/usr \
-  LIBDIR=$PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/ocaml
+make -j1 DESTDIR=$PKG install
 
 find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a Changes INSTALL* LICENSE README* VERSION \
   $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar -xvf $CWD/ocaml-4.03-refman-html.tar.gz --no-same-owner -C $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/
+tar -xvf $CWD/ocaml-$MANVER-refman-html.tar.gz --no-same-owner -C $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/development/ocaml/ocaml.info b/development/ocaml/ocaml.info
index 620db74149..0747f3b19c 100644
--- a/development/ocaml/ocaml.info
+++ b/development/ocaml/ocaml.info
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 PRGNAM="ocaml"
-VERSION="4.03.0"
+VERSION="4.08.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://caml.inria.fr"
-DOWNLOAD="http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.03/ocaml-4.03.0.tar.xz \
-          http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.03/ocaml-4.03-refman-html.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="89f62881e03dfad0cf04991fbc03f955 \
-        d3e44d3984d029d2e88ba219ad8e24c2"
+DOWNLOAD="http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.08/ocaml-4.08.1.tar.xz \
+          http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.08/ocaml-4.08-refman-html.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="519f095a563323cdaa68301d58bf099d \
+        20cbe4bd141f175d723f58cb9e89b215"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Markus Hutmacher"
-EMAIL="mailing@markhu.de"
+MAINTAINER="Matteo Bernardini"
+EMAIL="ponce@slackbuilds.org"