diff --git a/development/pforth/README b/development/pforth/README
index a4c56ec4bd..3ae8f5a119 100644
--- a/development/pforth/README
+++ b/development/pforth/README
@@ -4,7 +4,4 @@ far, pForth has run on Macs, PCs, SUNs, Amigas, Linux, BeOS, Nokia
 Communicator, SGI Indys, 3DO ARM systems, 3DO PowerPC systems, WebTV
 systems, Hitachi SH4, OpenTV prototypes, Compaq Ipaq 3970, Sharp LH79520
 ARM processor, Ciena Systems networking hardware, and some internal
-projects at Lucent. If you build pForth for an embedded system, please let
-me know and I will add your machine to the list of machines that pForth
-has run on.
-
+projects at Lucent.
diff --git a/development/pforth/pforth.SlackBuild b/development/pforth/pforth.SlackBuild
index ccb4b99405..ca9325917e 100644
--- a/development/pforth/pforth.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/pforth/pforth.SlackBuild
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 SRCVERSION=${VERSION}_20101121
+
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf ${PRGNAM}_$VERSION
+rm -rf ${PRGNAM}_$VERSION __MACOSX
 unzip "$CWD/${PRGNAM}_${SRCVERSION}.zip"
 cd ${PRGNAM}_${VERSION}/build/unix
 chown -R root:root .
@@ -66,16 +67,12 @@ mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a ../../*.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/pforth/${VERSION}
-strip pforth
-strip pforth_standalone
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin $PKG/usr/share/pforth/${VERSION}
+strip pforth pforth_standalone
 cp -a pforth $PKG/usr/bin/pforth
 cp -a pforth.dic $PKG/usr/share/pforth/${VERSION}/pforth.dic
 cp -a pforth_standalone  $PKG/usr/bin/pforth_standalone
-cd $PKG/usr/bin
-  ln -s pforth_standalone pfs
-cd -
+( cd $PKG/usr/bin ; ln -s pforth_standalone pfs )
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc