diff --git a/srcpkgs/freetype/template b/srcpkgs/freetype/template
index 423a24e508..41cbdce646 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/freetype/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/freetype/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file 'freetype'.
 pkgname=freetype
-version=2.5.2
-revision=3
+version=2.5.3
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config which"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpng-devel"
@@ -10,15 +10,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.freetype.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=4ff4bd393aa01071ec7b849d035508a505a78f88b2bcf25ff11e58e43c0b9def
-
-do_configure() {
-	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-		export LIBPNG_CFLAGS="$(pkg-config --cflags libpng)"
-		export LIBPNG_LDFLAGS="$(pkg-config --libs libpng)"
-	fi
-	./configure ${configure_args}
-}
+checksum=c0848b29d52ef3ca27ad92e08351f023c5e24ce8cea7d8fe69fc96358e65f75e
 
 freetype-devel_package() {
 	depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpng-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"