diff --git a/development/mysql-workbench/README b/development/mysql-workbench/README
index 9afc1c8f09..8a3181ae40 100644
--- a/development/mysql-workbench/README
+++ b/development/mysql-workbench/README
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ environment for:
 You need to allow MySQL to accept incoming connections from outside:
 Remove or comment this line:  SKIP="--skip-networking"  and then do:
 /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld restart
+
+Note: MySQL Workbench will be built against Python 2.7 even when Python 3.x
+is installed on your system
diff --git a/development/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench.SlackBuild b/development/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench.SlackBuild
index e28e8db0fd..d9e6c72add 100644
--- a/development/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench.SlackBuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Slackware build script for mysql-workbench
 
 # Originally written by André Geraldo Vieira <andre.geraldo@gmail.com>
-# Copyright 2013 Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
+# Copyright 2013-2014 Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=mysql-workbench
 VERSION=${VERSION:-6.0.8}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 SRCVERSION=$VERSION-src
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-community-$SRCVERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-community-$SRCVERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
- -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
+  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ cmake \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
     -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX \
+    -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/include/python2.7 \
+    -DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/libpython2.7.so \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
+
 make
 
 # we will remove it later after installation