diff --git a/srcpkgs/cherokee/template b/srcpkgs/cherokee/template
index edb833c9197..d3f44abd175 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cherokee/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cherokee/template
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
 # Template file for 'cherokee'
 pkgname=cherokee
 version=1.2.101
-revision=7
+revision=8
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="
  --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
---disable-static --with-wwwroot=/srv/httpd --with-wwwuser=httpd
---with-wwwgroup=httpd --with-python=python --enable-os-string=Linux"
+ --disable-static --with-wwwroot=/srv/httpd --with-wwwuser=httpd
+ --with-wwwgroup=httpd --with-python=python --enable-os-string=Linux"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool python"
 makedepends="pcre-devel>=8.30 python-devel libldap-devel pam-devel
  libmysqlclient-devel ffmpeg-devel>=2.1 geoip-devel"
-depends="shadow"
+short_desc="An innovative, feature rich, and yet easy to configure open source Web Server"
+maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
+homepage="http://www.cherokee-project.com/"
+license="GPL-2"
+distfiles="http://www.cherokee-project.de/mirrors/cherokee/1.2/${version}/cherokee-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=ca465ab3772479fc843b38ffc45113bf24d8bfae9185cdd5176b099d5a17feb8
+
 conf_files="/etc/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.conf"
 systemd_services="cherokee.service on"
 system_accounts="httpd"
@@ -19,26 +26,11 @@ make_dirs="
 	/etc/cherokee/ssl               0755    httpd   httpd
 	/var/log/cherokee               0755    httpd   httpd
 	/var/lib/cherokee/graphs/images 0755    httpd   httpd"
-short_desc="An innovative, feature rich, and yet easy to configure open source Web Server"
-maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
-homepage="http://www.cherokee-project.com/"
-license="GPL-2"
-distfiles="http://www.cherokee-project.de/mirrors/cherokee/1.2/${version}/cherokee-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=ca465ab3772479fc843b38ffc45113bf24d8bfae9185cdd5176b099d5a17feb8
-long_desc="
- Cherokee is an open-source Cross-platform Web server that runs on Linux, BSD
- variants, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. It is a lightweight,
- high-performance Web Server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General
- Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light.
- 
- Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named
- cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design. Cherokee is maintained and
- developed by an Open Source Community."
 
 pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
 	# use /var/log/cherokee instead of /var/log
-	sed -i -r 's|(%localstatedir%/log)|\1/cherokee|' \
-		cherokee.conf.sample.pre
+	sed -i -r 's|(%localstatedir%/log)|\1/cherokee|' cherokee.conf.sample.pre
 }
 
 post_install() {