diff --git a/www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.12-r1.ebuild b/www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.12-r1.ebuild
index 4b3c1644f2db9..fab36e361f886 100644
--- a/www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.12-r1.ebuild
+++ b/www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.12-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit optfeature webapp
 DESCRIPTION="A CalDAV and CardDAV Server"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.davical.org/"
 SRC_URI="https://www.davical.org/downloads/${PN}_${PV}.orig.tar.xz -> ${P}.tar.xz"
-
+S="${WORKDIR}"
 LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-2+ GPL-3+ LGPL-2.1+ LGPL-3+"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-admin/pwgen
 
 need_httpd
 
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
 src_compile() {
 	emake built-locale
 }