diff --git a/srcpkgs/ipfs-cluster/template b/srcpkgs/ipfs-cluster/template
index 95fbc0f7b89..f71fd3f4701 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ipfs-cluster/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ipfs-cluster/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'ipfs-cluster'
 pkgname=ipfs-cluster
 version=0.1.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=go
 go_import_path="github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster"
 go_package="github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster-ctl github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster-service"
-hostmakedepends="git wget"
+hostmakedepends="git wget gx-go"
 depends="go-ipfs"
 short_desc="Collective pinning and composition for IPFS"
 maintainer="Toyam Cox <Vaelatern@gmail.com>"
@@ -14,13 +14,9 @@ homepage="https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster"
 distfiles="https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=cd7ac1c97f5365a5592d502d7b21dfe8453afea37331028dcce98c1a6534b4f4
 
-case "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE}" in
-	*-musl) broken="Downloads gx-go and can't execute it";;
-esac
-
-# regular go mechanisms don't work, and upstream says to do this
 pre_build() {
-	make deps
+	gx install --global
+	gx-go rewrite
 }
 
 post_install() {