diff --git a/srcpkgs/evemu/template b/srcpkgs/evemu/template
index e78bb41435c..318860f92bd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/evemu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/evemu/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'evemu'
 pkgname=evemu
 version=2.7.0
-revision=3
+revision=4
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config python3 asciidoc xmlto"
 makedepends="libevdev-devel"
@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ homepage="https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu/"
 distfiles=${FREEDESKTOP_SITE}/evemu/evemu-$version.tar.xz
 checksum=78c9400d55eeeb5ab75161360543f9376438c4da4934cb34cdda5b46021ae379
 
+post_extract() {
+	# The py-compile helper uses the imp module, removed in Python 3.12;
+	# besides, we don't want the module pre-compiled anyway, so just drop it
+	: > config-aux/py-compile
+	cat > config-aux/py-compile <<-'EOF'
+		#!/bin/sh
+		: "$@"
+		EOF
+}
+
 post_install() {
 	sed -n '/Copyright/,/IN THE SOFTWARE/p' src/evemu.c >LICENSE
 	vlicense LICENSE