diff --git a/dev-libs/libbegemot/libbegemot-1.11.ebuild b/dev-libs/libbegemot/libbegemot-1.11.ebuild
index 929296a5a7136..a66e0e144ee80 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libbegemot/libbegemot-1.11.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libbegemot/libbegemot-1.11.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=0
+EAPI=7
 
 inherit libtool
 
@@ -12,18 +12,12 @@ SRC_URI="http://people.freebsd.org/~harti/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE=""
 
-DEPEND=""
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	elibtoolize
+}
 
 src_compile() {
-	elibtoolize
-	econf || die "econf failed"
-	emake -j1 || die "emake failed"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "emake install failed"
-
-	dodoc README
+	emake -j1
 }