diff --git a/srcpkgs/a2ps/template b/srcpkgs/a2ps/template
index 4de82a8047..2d769e2304 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/a2ps/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/a2ps/template
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="Any to PS filter"
 maintainer="Carlo Dormeletti <carlo.dormeletti@email.it>"
-license="GPL-2"
+license="GPL-3"
 hostmakedepends="perl gperf"
-makedepends="ghostscript ImageMagick psutils groff cups"
-depends="liba2ps>=${version}"
+makedepends="ghostscript psutils groff cups"
+configure_args="--sysconfdir=/etc/a2ps --enable-shared --with-medium=A4"
+LDFLAGS="-lm"
 conf_files="/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg /etc/a2ps/a2ps-site.cfg"
 homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/"
 distfiles="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum="f3ae8d3d4564a41b6e2a21f237d2f2b104f48108591e8b83497500182a3ab3a4"
 
-do_configure() {
+pre_configure() {
      sed -i "s/GPERF --version |/& head -n 1 |/" ./configure
      sed -i "s|/usr/local/share|/usr/share|" ./configure 
-     LIBS+="-lm" ./configure --prefix=/usr  --sysconfdir=/etc/a2ps --enable-shared --with-medium=A4 
 }
 
 
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ liba2ps-devel_package() {
 
 liba2ps_package() {
     short_desc+=" - library files"
-    depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
     pkg_install() {
         vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"