diff --git a/community/zimg/PKGBUILD b/community/zimg/PKGBUILD
index ac973b8f5..901fb78e1 100644
--- a/community/zimg/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/zimg/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# $Id$
 # Maintainer: Maxime Gauduin <alucryd@archlinux.org>
 # Contributor: Gustavo Alvarez <sl1pkn07@gmail.com>
 
@@ -6,7 +5,7 @@
 #  - remove --enable-x86simd from configure
 
 pkgname=zimg
-pkgver=2.7.5
+pkgver=2.8
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Scaling, colorspace conversion, and dithering library'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -18,10 +17,15 @@ options=('!emptydirs')
 source=("git+https://github.com/sekrit-twc/zimg.git#tag=release-${pkgver}")
 sha256sums=('SKIP')
 
-build() {
+prepare() {
   cd zimg
 
   ./autogen.sh
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd zimg
+
   ./configure \
     --prefix='/usr' \
     --disable-static