diff --git a/dev-python/sarge/sarge-0.1.5.ebuild b/dev-python/sarge/sarge-0.1.5.ebuild
index 9ffb7cb6e461d..91ce0166cea0e 100644
--- a/dev-python/sarge/sarge-0.1.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/sarge/sarge-0.1.5.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1
 
 MY_PN="${PN}"
 MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}.post0"
-S=$WORKDIR/$MY_P
+S=${WORKDIR}/$MY_P
 
 DESCRIPTION="wrapper for subprocess which provides command pipeline functionality"
 HOMEPAGE="https://sarge.readthedocs.org/"