diff --git a/community/libcaca/APKBUILD b/community/libcaca/APKBUILD
index 6dc473db5a6..a91c1d64cf2 100644
--- a/community/libcaca/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/libcaca/APKBUILD
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ source="http://caca.zoy.org/files/$pkgname/$pkgname-$_ver.tar.gz
 
 builddir="$srcdir"/libcaca-${_ver}
 
+prepare() {
+	default_prepare
+	# We need to do this since the _beta19 suffix that is put
+	# on version is invalid
+	sed -e "s|@VERSION@|${pkgver%_*}|" \
+		-i cxx/caca++.pc.in \
+		-i caca/caca.pc.in
+}
+
 build() {
 	cd "$builddir"
 	./configure --prefix=/usr