diff --git a/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.SlackBuild b/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.SlackBuild
index 82d48b3ec2..d25be79163 100644
--- a/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.SlackBuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=mergerfs
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.33.5}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.40.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -47,21 +47,13 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 else
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
-set -e 
+set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
@@ -77,15 +69,16 @@ find -L . \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 make \
-    CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-    CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     PREFIX="/usr" \
+    LIBDIR="/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX" \
     MANDIR="/usr/man" \
     DOCDIR="/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION" \
     BUILD="$ARCH-slackware-linux" \
     DESTDIR=$PKG \
     install 
 
+chmod a+x $PKG/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/$PRGNAM/*.so
+
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
diff --git a/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.info b/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.info
index c7af623bd7..9ee4092cc1 100644
--- a/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.info
+++ b/system/mergerfs/mergerfs.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="mergerfs"
-VERSION="2.33.5"
+VERSION="2.40.2"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/releases/download/2.33.5/mergerfs-2.33.5.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="29d389f68d1f4b6300f15db67df817eb"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/releases/download/2.40.2/mergerfs-2.40.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="1f3cfb7fcde4f885ec2082b0ba768100"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""