diff --git a/srcpkgs/fribidi/template b/srcpkgs/fribidi/template
index 5406fc5d8c1..5dd8e4c9b63 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fribidi/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fribidi/template
@@ -1,16 +1,34 @@
 # Template file for 'fribidi'
 pkgname=fribidi
-version=0.19.7
+version=0.19.7.20171205
 revision=1
+_c2man_version=2.41
+_gitrev=0efbaa9052320a951823a6e776b30a580e3a2b4e
+wrksrc=fribidi-${_gitrev}
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
 makedepends="libglib-devel"
 short_desc="Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm"
 homepage="http://fribidi.org/"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
-distfiles="http://fribidi.org/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=08222a6212bbc2276a2d55c3bf370109ae4a35b689acbc66571ad2a670595a8e
+distfiles="https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/archive/${_gitrev}.tar.gz>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=3bc7b61bbe1194828159feb5d3151cca9647d102f13b84e320cf040640ba2449
+disable_parallel_build=yes
+
+pre_configure() {
+	mkdir -p m4
+	NOCONFIGURE=1 autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+pre_build() {
+	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		sed -i gen.tab/Makefile \
+			-e "s;^\(CC =\) .*;\1 cc;" \
+			-e "s;^\(CFLAGS =\) .*;\1 -O2 -pipe;" \
+			-e "s;^\(LDFLAGS =\) .*;\1 -s;"
+	fi
+}
 
 fribidi-devel_package() {
 	depends="${makedepends} fribidi>=${version}_${revision}"