diff --git a/srcpkgs/sysbench/template b/srcpkgs/sysbench/template
index 987c17725c..e5f21eb8d5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sysbench/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sysbench/template
@@ -18,11 +18,9 @@ homepage="https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench"
 distfiles="https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=39cde56b58754d97b2fe6a1688ffc0e888d80c262cf66daee19acfb2997f9bdd
 
-case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
-	ppc64*) ;;
-	armv6*|ppc*) makedepends+=" libatomic-devel" ;;
-esac
-
+if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_NO_ATOMIC8" ]; then
+	makedepends+=" libatomic-devel"
+fi
 
 pre_configure() {
 	autoreconf -fi