diff --git a/srcpkgs/powerstat/template b/srcpkgs/powerstat/template
index 8120e494e66..03e7afa3e70 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/powerstat/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/powerstat/template
@@ -9,5 +9,7 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/powerstat/"
 distfiles="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/powerstat/powerstat-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=fbed92b3783a44d9e55203a5cdb2204fe8b9ac9ec91d5b86a83b7e148ca933bf
-# setting version fails, do it manually
-CFLAGS="-DVERSION=\\\"$version\\\""
+
+do_build() {
+	make CC=$CC ${makejobs}
+}