diff --git a/testing/cgal/APKBUILD b/testing/cgal/APKBUILD
index 90f7d5aafc7..8025cd6b259 100644
--- a/testing/cgal/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/cgal/APKBUILD
@@ -1,29 +1,41 @@
 # Maintainer: Marian Buschsieweke <marian.buschsieweke@ovgu.de>
 pkgname=cgal
-pkgver=4.14
-pkgrel=6
+pkgver=5.4
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Efficient and reliable geometric algorithms as C++ library"
 url="https://www.cgal.org/"
-arch="all"
+# lib is header-only as of version 5.4
+arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later custom" # Dual licensed under GPL-3.0+ and commercial
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
-makedepends="mpfr-dev gmp-dev mesa-dev glu-dev boost-dev cmake zlib-dev"
-source="https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-$pkgver/CGAL-$pkgver.tar.xz"
+makedepends="mpfr-dev gmp-dev mesa-dev glu-dev boost-dev cmake zlib-dev ninja"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/v$pkgver/CGAL-$pkgver.tar.xz"
 builddir="$srcdir/CGAL-$pkgver"
-# Citing from.https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/wiki/Testing#test-suite-directory
+# Citing from https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/wiki/Testing#test-suite-directory
 # > The test/ directory is not part of external releases.
 options="!check"
 
 build() {
-	mkdir -p build
-	cd build
-	cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib
-	make
+	cmake -B build \
+		-G Ninja \
+		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib
+	cmake --build build
 }
 
 package() {
-	cd build
-	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+	DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build
+	install -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname -Dm644 LICENSE*
 }
 
-sha512sums="1f22da098a136c26fd51c7ac401212865dce7cc5110ca6a083ef6f09ead5c03a002bfd16752cb298427b84bd5b4900b52c6514f97ccd0e199ffb28e9fe640c43  CGAL-4.14.tar.xz"
+dev() {
+	default_dev
+	amove usr/bin/cgal_create_CMakeLists
+	amove usr/bin/cgal_create_cmake_script
+	amove usr/bin/cgal_make_macosx_app
+}
+
+sha512sums="
+ecaa7a130365e066c098f500751e5be89d908ed7e3c4ea9b50fbe2b1e13f4dd2bca0319157d0de8ec2eb7847c88b9190f369ff97c33c0c5e326f2d470104386d  cgal-5.4.tar.xz
+"