diff --git a/www-misc/mergelog/mergelog-4.5-r2.ebuild b/www-misc/mergelog/mergelog-4.5-r2.ebuild
index 936acbb1f570d..8872f31412399 100644
--- a/www-misc/mergelog/mergelog-4.5-r2.ebuild
+++ b/www-misc/mergelog/mergelog-4.5-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=4
+EAPI=7
 
-AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=1
-inherit autotools-utils eutils
+inherit autotools
 
 DESCRIPTION="A utility to merge apache logs in chronological order"
-SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/mergelog/${P}.tar.gz"
 HOMEPAGE="http://mergelog.sourceforge.net"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/mergelog/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 IUSE=""
 SLOT="0"
@@ -18,8 +17,12 @@ KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc x86"
 RDEPEND="sys-libs/zlib"
 DEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
-DOCS=( AUTHORS ChangeLog README)
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-splitlog.patch
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-asneeded.patch
 )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	eapply_user
+	eautoreconf
+}