diff --git a/testing/py-pdal/APKBUILD b/testing/py-pdal/APKBUILD
index 64d8efac5f7..6508a1424cf 100644
--- a/testing/py-pdal/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/py-pdal/APKBUILD
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Contributor: Bradley J Chambers <brad.chambers@gmail.com>
 # Maintainer: Bradley J Chambers <brad.chambers@gmail.com>
 pkgname=py-pdal
-pkgver=2.0.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=2.1.8
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="PDAL Python bindings"
 url="https://github.com/pdal/python"
-arch="x86 x86_64"
+arch="x86_64"
 license="BSD"
 makedepends="cython python2-dev py-setuptools py-packaging pdal-dev>=1.7.2-r1 pdal>=1.7.2-r1 py-numpy-dev libxml2-dev"
 install=""
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/PDAL/python/archive/$pkgver.
 builddir="$srcdir/python-$pkgver"
 
 build() {
-        cd "$builddir"
         python2 setup.py build
 }
 
@@ -36,4 +35,4 @@ _py() {
         cd "$builddir"
         $python setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root="$subpkgdir"
 }
-sha512sums="efb3701e8de01f59ec1cfc0a39920c0e6a234d74e4e68dcd3ce4f82f95c27d759786b16c41e3fc4ee61846c33b5ecc024455bab9efd493e795c8687833a47e17  py-pdal-2.0.0.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="63943f376083b66b531c7b85722e7878383cba0a0d35c751c6127ed4ccddfa4b8bf52ff00481971bb5af05d7b0bc7531b67571db3d147b5c86ecfb809d718954  py-pdal-2.1.8.tar.gz"