diff --git a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
index 52e06cab2..b0477cddd 100644
--- a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
+++ b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-prefix=''
-set_confopt
+libdir=$root/lib
 
 zlib_pm() {
 	# create a static version
@@ -33,6 +32,7 @@ zlib_pm() {
 var_insert confopt " " "--shared"
 var_append makeinstopt " " "mandir=$mandir"
 hook_add preconf 3 "unset AR"
+hook_add premake 3 "sed -ie 's,cp ,install ,' Makefile"
 hook_add postmake 3 "zlib_pm"
 
 # optimized code
diff --git a/package/base/zlib/zlib.desc b/package/base/zlib/zlib.desc
index 8d4b630c7..2b9911beb 100644
--- a/package/base/zlib/zlib.desc
+++ b/package/base/zlib/zlib.desc
@@ -23,14 +23,11 @@
 
 [I] The zlib general purpose data compression library.
 
-[T] zlib 1.2.1 is a general purpose data compression library.  All the code
+[T] zlib is a general purpose data compression library.  All the code
 [T] is thread safe.  The data format used by the zlib library
 [T] is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files 
 [T] ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate
 [T] format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format).
-[T]
-[T] All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h.
-[T] (volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact jloup@gzip.org).
 
 [U] http://www.zlib.net/