diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c1ca2ca..d219e09 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OMIT_FRAME_POINTER = -fomit-frame-pointer
 
 # Name of .pc file. "lua5.1" on Debian/Ubuntu
 LUAPKG = lua5.1
-CFLAGS = `pkg-config $(LUAPKG) --cflags` -O3 -Wall
+CFLAGS = `pkg-config $(LUAPKG) --cflags` -fPIC -O3 -Wall
 LFLAGS = -shared $(OMIT_FRAME_POINTER)
 INSTALL_PATH = `pkg-config $(LUAPKG) --variable=INSTALL_CMOD`
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ INSTALL_PATH = `pkg-config $(LUAPKG) --variable=INSTALL_CMOD`
 ## uncomment and change the following ones according to your building
 ## enviroment.
 
-#CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/lua5.1/ -O3 -Wall
+#CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/lua5.1/ -fPIC -O3 -Wall
 #LFLAGS = -shared $(OMIT_FRAME_POINTER)
 #INSTALL_PATH = /usr/lib/lua/5.1
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index ddca991..4a14fa8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
         Lua-iconv: performs character set conversions in Lua
-     (c) 2005-08 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
+     (c) 2005-09 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
            Project page: http://lua-iconv.luaforge.net/
 
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ sequence of corresponding characters in another codeset. The codesets
 are those specified in the iconv.new() call that returned the conversion
 descriptor, cd.
 
-Lua-iconv r5 *requires* Lua 5.1. If you are using Lua 5.0, please use the
+Lua-iconv 5 *requires* Lua 5.1. If you are using Lua 5.0, please use the
 first release (lua-iconv-r1).
 
 Details regarding iconv may be obtained from:
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/iconv.h.html
 
 === LICENSE ===
 
-Lua-iconv is (c) 2005-08 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
+Lua-iconv is (c) 2005-09 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
 
 Lua-iconv is copyrighted free software: it can be used for both academic
 and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost. There are no royalties
diff --git a/luaiconv.c b/luaiconv.c
index 25ae58b..2dd42e5 100644
--- a/luaiconv.c
+++ b/luaiconv.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * luaiconv - Performs character set conversions in Lua
- * (c) 2005-08 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
+ * (c) 2005-09 Alexandre Erwin Ittner <aittner@gmail.com>
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 
 #define LIB_NAME                "iconv"
-#define LIB_VERSION             LIB_NAME " r5"
+#define LIB_VERSION             LIB_NAME " 5"
 #define ICONV_TYPENAME          "iconv_t"
 
 
diff --git a/maketargz.sh b/maketargz.sh
index deb21be..f386eed 100755
--- a/maketargz.sh
+++ b/maketargz.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 PACKAGE=lua-iconv
-VERSION=r5
+VERSION=5
 
 DIRNAME=$PACKAGE-$VERSION
 TGZNAME=$DIRNAME.tar.gz