diff --git a/academic/xiphos/xiphos-glibc.patch b/academic/xiphos/xiphos-glibc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9a89b0d1fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/academic/xiphos/xiphos-glibc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+--- cmake/config.h.cmake.in-orig	2021-04-15 19:28:57.468140150 +0300
++++ cmake/config.h.cmake.in	2021-04-15 20:45:57.816551253 +0300
+@@ -65,3 +65,5 @@
+ 
+ 
+ #endif
++
++#define GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED (GLIB_VERSION_2_26)
diff --git a/academic/xiphos/xiphos.SlackBuild b/academic/xiphos/xiphos.SlackBuild
index e7f907c745..ea6030fa70 100644
--- a/academic/xiphos/xiphos.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/xiphos/xiphos.SlackBuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=xiphos
 VERSION=${VERSION:-4.2.1}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-3}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-4}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ export PATH=/opt/cmake-202x/bin:$PATH
 
 # patch navbar_versekey.gtkbuilder to work with gtk shipped with slackware 14.2
 # patch won't be needed for slackware 15
-sed -i "s/3.20/3.14/g" ui/navbar_versekey.gtkbuilder
+#sed -i "s/3.20/3.14/g" ui/navbar_versekey.gtkbuilder
+
+patch -p0 < $CWD/xiphos-glibc.patch
 
 mkdir -p build
 cd build
diff --git a/academic/xiphos/xiphos.info b/academic/xiphos/xiphos.info
index 46582994ec..2e531b0cac 100644
--- a/academic/xiphos/xiphos.info
+++ b/academic/xiphos/xiphos.info
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/download/4.2.1/xiphos-4.2
 MD5SUM="77d8a99c063433bea3006954710b2fd5"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="sword webkitgtk3 biblesync rarian gtkhtml libminizip appstream-glib yelp"
+REQUIRES="sword webkit2gtk biblesync rarian gtkhtml libminizip appstream-glib yelp"
 MAINTAINER="Tim Dickson"
 EMAIL="dickson.tim@googlemail.com"