diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl-WWW-Mechanize/template b/srcpkgs/perl-WWW-Mechanize/template
index 28a509b4e2..18e6d59de9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl-WWW-Mechanize/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl-WWW-Mechanize/template
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ version=1.73
 revision=2
 wrksrc="${pkgname/perl-/}-${version}"
 build_style=perl-module
-hostmakedepends="perl>=5.20"
-makedepends="${hostmakedepends} perl-LWP perl-HTML-Parser perl-URI
+hostmakedepends="perl>=5.20 perl-LWP perl-HTML-Parser perl-URI
 	perl-HTTP-Response-Encoding perl-HTTP-Server-Simple
 	perl-Test-Warn>=0.30_2 perl-HTML-Form"
+makedepends="${hostmakedepends}"
 depends="${makedepends}"
 noarch="yes"
 short_desc="WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object"
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ homepage="http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize"
 license="Artistic, GPL-1"
 distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/WWW/${pkgname/perl-/}-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=e9d56c921ce8f09a9087031249945f27383e29cee28b1e0a46c473d894423cff
+
+pre_configure() {
+	unset configure_args
+}