diff --git a/srcpkgs/ted/template b/srcpkgs/ted/template
index 20a570f250c..a933f7fd3e5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ted/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ted/template
@@ -1,22 +1,34 @@
 # Template file for 'ted'
 pkgname=ted
 version=2.23
-revision=1
+revision=2
 wrksrc=Ted-${version}
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
-makedepends="zlib-devel pcre-devel libX11-devel libxmp-devel tiff-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel gtk+-devel libpaper-devel"
-short_desc="An easy rich text processor"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config tar"
+makedepends="zlib-devel pcre-devel libX11-devel libxmp-devel tiff-devel
+ libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel gtk+-devel libpaper-devel"
+short_desc="Easy rich text processor"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
-license="GPL-2"
+license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://nllgg.nl/Ted/"
 distfiles="http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted/ted-${version}.src.tar.gz"
 checksum=3fa992c2bc96af3ca788ef941cb5314f4a1d843202efd0201b8b4ee9adbf316c
-nocross=yes
+
+post_patch() {
+	vsed -i -e '/YOU MUST BE ROOT/ s/id -u /echo 0 /' tedPackage/configure
+	vsed -i -e 's/@LIBTIFF_LIBS@/-ltiff/g' \
+		-e 's/@LIBPAPER_LIBS@/-lpaper/g' \
+		Ted/makefile.in
+}
+
+do_configure() {
+	# replace all newlines with tabs
+	export CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="${configure_args//
+/	}"
+	vsed -i -e '/^CONFIGURE_OPTIONS[	 ]*=/ s/=/ += /' Makefile
+	make $(sed -n '/^[-a-zA-Z0-9_]*\/[Mm]akefile:/ s/:.*//p' Makefile)
+}
 
 do_build() {
-	make
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	make install DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}"
+	make $makejobs compile.shared
 }