diff --git a/repos/ports/src/app/lighttpd/target.inc b/repos/ports/src/app/lighttpd/target.inc
index 312d648e6c..0d3b316a6d 100644
--- a/repos/ports/src/app/lighttpd/target.inc
+++ b/repos/ports/src/app/lighttpd/target.inc
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ SRC_C = $(filter-out $(FILTER_OUT),$(notdir $(wildcard $(LIGHTTPD_DIR)/src/*.c))
 vpath %.c $(LIGHTTPD_DIR)/src
 
 # read version information from configure script
-LIGHTTPD_VERSION := $(subst ., ,$(shell cat $(LIGHTTPD_DIR)/configure |\
+LIGHTTPD_VERSION = $(subst ., ,$(shell cat $(LIGHTTPD_DIR)/configure |\
                                         grep "PACKAGE_VERSION=" |\
                                         sed "s/^.*='//;s/'//"))
 
-LIGHTTPD_MAIN  := $(word 1,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
-LIGHTTPD_MAJOR := $(word 2,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
-LIGHTTPD_MINOR := $(word 3,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
+LIGHTTPD_MAIN  = $(word 1,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
+LIGHTTPD_MAJOR = $(word 2,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
+LIGHTTPD_MINOR = $(word 3,$(LIGHTTPD_VERSION))
 
 CC_OPT += -DHAVE_SOCKLEN_T -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DUSE_POLL
 CC_OPT += -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H -DHAVE_SYS_UN_H -DHAVE_MMAP -DHAVE_SYS_MMAN_H -DHAVE_SELECT