diff --git a/media-libs/speexdsp/speexdsp-1.2.1.ebuild b/media-libs/speexdsp/speexdsp-1.2.1.ebuild
index 4c7c02bf25992..c7c5c41cbcf19 100644
--- a/media-libs/speexdsp/speexdsp-1.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/speexdsp/speexdsp-1.2.1.ebuild
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ DESCRIPTION="Audio compression format designed for speech -- DSP"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.speex.org/"
 SRC_URI="https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
 LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
@@ -19,8 +21,6 @@ IUSE="cpu_flags_x86_sse cpu_flags_x86_sse2 cpu_flags_arm_neon"
 
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.0-configure.patch
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-slibtoolize.patch