diff --git a/dev-libs/nettle/nettle-3.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/nettle/nettle-3.4.ebuild
index ee1a03c88a85e..40a536e8736b2 100644
--- a/dev-libs/nettle/nettle-3.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/nettle/nettle-3.4.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=6
+EAPI=7
 
 inherit autotools multilib-build multilib-minimal multilib toolchain-funcs
 
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ MULTILIB_WRAPPED_HEADERS=(
 DOCS=()
 HTML_DOCS=()
 
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-3.4"
-
 pkg_setup() {
 	use doc && DOCS+=(
 		nettle.pdf