diff --git a/srcpkgs/earlyoom/template b/srcpkgs/earlyoom/template
index 396a264857b..f342da3669d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/earlyoom/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/earlyoom/template
@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'earlyoom'
 pkgname=earlyoom
-version=1.1
+version=1.2
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-makefile
 make_check_target=test
+hostmakedepends="pandoc"
 checkdepends="go"
 short_desc="Userspace Early OOM Daemon for Linux"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom"
 distfiles="https://github.com/rfjakob/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=10f700f4eac5322ae7c05520817450da25c2a492471305c8d79192f8fe21ab41
-
-do_build() {
-	${CC} ${CFLAGS} -DVERSION='"'v$version'"' -o earlyoom *.c ${LDFLAGS}
-}
+checksum=ce4e8b435eda9bd1427b6606558356249486a405850b9869c0006e7fbd454c5f
+CFLAGS="-DVERSION='\"${version}\"'"
 
 do_install() {
 	vbin earlyoom