diff --git a/bldpkg b/bldpkg
index 72dd6d4..c035311 100755
--- a/bldpkg
+++ b/bldpkg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Part of the SMLinux distribution
 # http://git.pktsurf.in/smlinux
 #
-# /bin/bldpkg version 0.1
+# /bin/bldpkg version 0.100
 # Bash script to build SMLinux-specific packages
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2022-2023 PktSurf <smlinux@pktsurf.in>
@@ -128,8 +128,12 @@ validatebldfile() {
     [[ ! ${!reqvars} ]] && err "Required variable '$reqvars' is not set in $buildfile!"
   done
 
+  # Check if 'Maintainer' comment exists
+  if ! grep -q "^# Maintainer" "$buildfile" ; then
+    err "Please provide a Maintainer name and email as a comment at the top of the build file"
+
   # Validate $app
-  if ! echo "$app" | grep -E -q '\w[a-z0-9-]+\w'; then
+  elif ! echo "$app" | grep -E -q '\w[a-z0-9-]+\w'; then
     err "Only lower case, numeric characters and dash allowed in the 'app' variable in the build file."
 
   # Validate $version 
@@ -323,6 +327,39 @@ runtime() {
   fi
 }
 
+# Generate and insert sha512sums into the build file
+genchecksum() {
+  # File types whose checksums will go into the new build file
+  info "Discarding any old sha512sums from '$buildfile'"
+  sed -E -i \
+    -e '/^sha512sums=".*"$/d' \
+    -e '/^sha512sums="/,/"$/d' \
+    -e "/^sha512sums='.*'\$/d" \
+    "$buildfile"
+
+  info "Adding new sha512sums in '$buildfile'"
+  printf 'sha512sums="\n' >> "$buildfile"
+
+  files=( *.tar.* *.zip *.t?z *.patch *.diff *.c *.h )
+
+  # For loop that searches for files matching the above extension and prints them to the bottom of the build file
+  for file in "${files[@]}" ; do
+  if [[ -f $file ]] ; then
+    info "Adding $file"
+    sha512sum "$file" >> "$buildfile"
+  fi
+  done
+
+  printf '"' >> "$buildfile"
+
+  if [[ $(find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | wc -l) -ge 1 ]]; then
+    warn "SHA512 checksums not generated for files inside directories!"
+  fi
+
+  info "You may now run 'bldpkg' again"
+  exit 0
+}
+
 preprunitservice() {
   # Usage: preprunitservice -s chrony -d -f 
   while getopts ':dfs:' option; do
@@ -464,19 +501,13 @@ mkfinalpkg() {
   info "Performing packaging tasks..."
    
   # Check if /lib64 was created inside $pkg
-  if [[ -d lib64 ]] ; then
-    err "'$app' has /lib64 directory within the staging directory. Musl does not support multilib.
-Please fix the build options and ensure the /lib64 is not created."
-  fi
+  [[ -d lib64 ]] && err "Multilib directory '/lib64' created inside '$pkg' not supported by musl C library."
    
   # Check if /usr and /sbin were created inside staging directory $pkg 
   # of its build file. Ignore their existence if $ignoreusr is set to 1 in the pkg build file
   if [[ -z $ignoreusr ]] ; then
     for directory in usr sbin ; do
-      if [[ -d $directory ]] ; then
-        err "'$app' has '$directory' directory within the staging directory which is a symlink to /bin on SMLinux.
-Please fix the build options and ensure '$directory' is not created"
-      fi
+      [[ -d $directory ]] && err "$pkg/$directory is a symlink to '/bin'. Fix your build options and ensure such a directory is not created"
     done
   fi
 
@@ -517,12 +548,6 @@ EOF
     )
   fi
    
-  # Remove libtool archive files
-  if [[ -d lib ]] ; then
-    info "Discarding any libtool archive (.la) files..."
-    find "$pkg" -type f -name "*.la" -exec rm -v {} \;
-  fi
-
   # Provide a copy of the package build file as a source of reference for users
   if [[ -n $origbuildfile ]] && [[ -f $srcdir/$origbuildfile ]] ; then
     install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/$origbuildfile" "$pkgdocs/$app.SMBuild"
@@ -530,32 +555,40 @@ EOF
     install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/$buildfile" "$pkgdocs/$app.SMBuild"
   fi
 
-  # Now strip the binaries and shared libraries. --strip-unneeded is unnecessary for binutils 2.34+
-  if [[ -z $debug ]] && [[ $debug != 1 ]]; then
-    find "$pkg" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -m /etc/file/magic/elf | \
-      grep -E "ELF.*(executable|shared object|statically linked)" |\
-      cut -d: -f1 | xargs strip 2>/dev/null || true
+  # Remove libtool archive files
+  if [[ -d lib ]] && [[ "$(findlibtoolfiles | wc -l)" -ge 1 ]] ; then
+    info "Discarding libtool archive (.la) files..."
+    findlibtoolfiles -exec rm -v {} \;
   fi
 
   # If $preservestaticlibs is not set in the package build file, delete all static libraries
-  if [[ -z $preservestaticlibs ]] ; then
-    info "Discarding any static libraries..."
-    find "$pkg" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -m /etc/file/magic/archive | \
-    grep -E "current ar archive" | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d: -f1 | \
-    xargs rm -v 2>/dev/null || true
+  if [[ -d lib ]] && [[ -z $preservestaticlibs ]] ; then
+    if [[ "$(findarchivefiles | wc -l)" -ge 1 ]] ; then
+      info "Discarding static libraries..."
+      findarchivefiles | xargs rm -v
+    fi
   fi
-  
+
+  # Now strip the binaries and libraries.
+  if [[ -z $debug ]] ; then
+    if [[ "$(findelffiles | wc -l)" -ge 1 ]] ; then
+      info "Stripping ELF files..."
+      # scanelf will, if a static archive is found, return object files inside that archive, so play safe
+      findelffiles | cut -d: -f1 | uniq | xargs strip --strip-unneeded
+    fi
+  fi
+
   # Calculate total files, directories, symlinks and uncompressed staging directory size
   if [[ $showsummary = 1 ]] ; then
     totalfilecount=$(find "$pkg" -type f | wc -l)
     totaldircount=$(find "$pkg" -type d | wc -l)
     totalsymcount=$(find "$pkg" -type l | wc -l)
     packusize1=$(du -s "$pkg" | awk '{print $1}')
-  fi
 
-  # Here we ascertain the packaging time taken to actually prepare the final package. For this, we
-  # must reset the SECONDS variable to ensure accuracy
-  SECONDS=0
+    # Here we ascertain the packaging time taken to actually prepare the final package. For this, we
+    # must reset the SECONDS variable to ensure accuracy
+    SECONDS=0
+  fi
 
   # Store package location inside this variable:
   newpkglocation="$pkgdest/$app-$version-$arch-$build.$pkgext"
@@ -571,21 +604,13 @@ EOF
     if find . -type l | grep -qm1 .; then
       info "Found symlinks, preparing install/doinst.sh..."
       find . -type l -printf '( cd %h ; rm -rf %f )\n( cd %h ; ln -sf %l %f )\n' -delete > install/symlinks
-      if [[ -f install/doinst.sh ]]; then
-        printf '\n' | cat - install/doinst.sh >> install/symlinks
-      fi
+      [[ -f install/doinst.sh ]] && printf '\n' | cat - install/doinst.sh >> install/symlinks
       mv install/symlinks install/doinst.sh
     fi
   fi
 
-  # Discard install directory if it's empty but don't error out
-  rmdir lib &> /dev/null || true
-  
   # Discard charset.alias
-  if [[ -f lib/charset.alias ]] ; then
-    info "Discarding charset.alias"
-    rm lib/charset.alias
-  fi
+  [[ -f lib/charset.alias ]] && rm lib/charset.alias
 
   # Also discard the lib directory if it's empty but don't error out
   rmdir lib &> /dev/null || true
@@ -619,13 +644,13 @@ EOF
 
 
   if [[ $showsummary = 1 ]]; then
-    # Determine size of SRCDIR aka source directory
+    # Determine size of srcdir aka source directory
     srcdirsize=$(du -s "$srcdir" | awk '{print $1}')
     # Determine size of tmp aka build directory size
     builddirsize=$(du -s "$tmp" | awk '{print $1}')
 
     # Calculate SSD write savings if TMPFS has been used
-    if [[ $tmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
+    if [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
 
       # Determine size of staging directory
       pkgdirsize=$(du -s "$pkg" | awk '{print $1}')
@@ -648,6 +673,18 @@ EOF
   [[ $preservepackagedir = 0 ]] && rm -rf "$pkg"
 }
 
+findarchivefiles() {
+  find "lib" -type f -name "*.a"
+}
+
+findlibtoolfiles() {
+  find "lib" -type f -name "*.la" "$@"
+}
+
+findelffiles() {
+  scanelf --archives --nobanner --recursive --symlink --format "%F" --etype "ET_EXEC,ET_DYN,ET_REL" .
+}
+
 buildfilecleanup() {
   # Discard all temporary files
   rm "$parenttmp/BUILDING" 
@@ -702,7 +739,6 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
       buildsys="Manual"
     fi
 
-
     # Determine if distcc was used. If $distcc set to 1, set distccstats in the build summary 
     if [[ $distcc = 1 ]] ; then
       # If distcc was used, cut out --randomize and output rest of the DISTCC_HOSTS variable
@@ -716,7 +752,7 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
 
     # Determine if ccache was used. If we are compiling inside tmpfs, we are not using ccache at all, so set 
     # ccachestats accordingly in the build summary
-    if [[ $ccache = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
+    if [[ $ccache = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
       ccachestats="Set to 1 but disabled due to tmpfs"
 
     elif [[ $ccache = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfs = 0 ]] ; then
@@ -731,7 +767,6 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
       ccachestats="No, disabled in bldpkg.conf"
     fi
 
-
     # Determine the build type
     if [[ $debug = 1 ]] ; then
       bldtype="*DEBUG* build"
@@ -740,7 +775,7 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
     fi
 
     # Determine whether tmpfs was used
-    if [[ $tmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
+    if [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 1 ]] ; then
       tmpfsstate="Yes"
 
     elif [[ $tmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ $tmpfsenabledforthispackage = 0 ]]; then
@@ -753,7 +788,6 @@ prepbuildoutput() {
       tmpfsstate="No, disabled in bldpkg.conf"
     fi
 
-
     # Determine if the build was successful or not
     if [[ $pkgstatus = 0 ]] ; then
       # Determine the compressed size
@@ -865,7 +899,7 @@ while getopts ':def:ghj:o:rstvx' option; do
     e) extractprompt=0; 
        autoextract=1 ;; # Automatically extract the final pkg installer inside user's PWD
     f) setbuildfile="$OPTARG" ;;
-    g) genchecksum=1 ;;
+    g) genchecksum ;;
     h) help ;;
     j) custommakeflags="$OPTARG" ;;
     o) origbuildfile="$OPTARG" ;;
@@ -951,39 +985,6 @@ fi
 # Unset OPTIND and OPTARG to avoid problems if getopts is used again in the future
 unset OPTIND OPTARG
 
-# Generate and insert sha512sums into the build file
-if [[ $genchecksum = 1 ]] ; then
-
-  # File types whose checksums will go into the new build file
-  info "Discarding any old sha512sums from '$buildfile'"
-  sed -E -i \
-    -e '/^sha512sums=".*"$/d' \
-    -e '/^sha512sums="/,/"$/d' \
-    -e "/^sha512sums='.*'\$/d" \
-    "$buildfile"
-
-  info "Adding new sha512sums in '$buildfile'"
-  printf 'sha512sums="\n' >> "$buildfile"
-
-  files=( *.tar.* *.zip *.t?z *.patch *.diff *.c *.h )
-
-  # For loop that searches for files matching the above extension and prints them to the bottom of the build file
-  for file in "${files[@]}" ; do
-    if [[ -f $file ]] ; then
-      sha512sum "$file" >> "$buildfile"
-    fi
-  done
-
-  printf '"' >> "$buildfile"
-
-  if [[ $(find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | wc -l) -ge 1 ]]; then
-    warn "SHA512 checksums not generated for files inside directories!"
-  fi
-
-  info "You may now run 'bldpkg' again"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
 # Display the package and its version we are building or resuming
 if [[ -z $resumepkgbuild ]] ; then
   info "Building package '$app' version '$version' ..."
@@ -1123,6 +1124,8 @@ if [[ $tmpfs = 1 ]] && [[ -z $tmpfscheckfailed ]] ; then
   # is solely for deciding whether $app is in the exception list or not. 
   if inarray "${app}" "${tmpfsexceptionlist[@]}" ; then
 
+    info "'$app' is in tmpfs exception list. Falling back to non-tmpfs directory"
+
     # We DO NOT compile inside tmpfsdir
     tmpfsenabledforthispackage=0
 
@@ -1290,9 +1293,7 @@ trap "prepbuildoutput" EXIT
 trap "interruptoutput" INT
 
 # If $tmp exists, get the path to the $.app-$version.extraction.complete file
-if [[ -d $tmp ]] ; then
-  buildresumepath="$(find $tmp -type f -name .$app-$version.extraction.complete)"
-fi
+[[ -d $tmp ]] && buildresumepath="$(find $tmp -type f -name .$app-$version.extraction.complete)"
 
 # If  the above file exists, $resumepkgbuild and $autobuild are unset
 # and $autoresumepkgbuild is set to 1 in bldpkg.conf, prompt the user
@@ -1307,9 +1308,7 @@ if [[ -f $buildresumepath ]] && [[ -z $resumepkgbuild ]] && [[ $autoresumepkgbui
 fi
 
 # If $resumepkgbuild variable is not set in getopts, only then execute prepbuilddir variable
-if [[ -z $resumepkgbuild ]] ; then
-  prepbuilddir
-fi
+[[ -z $resumepkgbuild ]] && prepbuilddir
 
 # If $resumepkgbuild is set either in getopts or from the user prompt above, execute mkandenterbuilddir 
 # function to enter the build directory. This is being done because mkandenterbuilddir is part of prepbuilddir