diff --git a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.80.4.ebuild b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.80.4.ebuild
index 669a81431dcfd..3f62df24a9868 100644
--- a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.80.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.80.4.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ inherit gnome.org distutils-r1
 DESCRIPTION="GDBus code and documentation generator"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtk.org/"
 
+S="${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen"
+
 LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
@@ -30,8 +32,6 @@ BDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/docutils-0.21.1
 "
 
-S="${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen"
-
 python_prepare_all() {
 	PATCHES=(
 		"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.56.1-sitedir.patch"