diff --git a/php-gd/.md5sum b/php-gd/.md5sum
index 860242818..edfdaf3d3 100644
--- a/php-gd/.md5sum
+++ b/php-gd/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7caac4f71e2f21426c11ac153e538392  php-5.3.14.tar.bz2
+ffcc7f4dcf2b79d667fe0c110e6cb724  php-5.4.5.tar.bz2
diff --git a/php-gd/Pkgfile b/php-gd/Pkgfile
index be3bd345e..0d1f15897 100644
--- a/php-gd/Pkgfile
+++ b/php-gd/Pkgfile
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 # Description: GD module for PHP
 # URL: http://www.php.net
 # Maintainer: Mikhail Kolesnik, mike at openbunker dot org
-# Depends on: libgd
+# Depends on: libjpeg libpng freetype
 
 name=php-gd
-version=5.3.14
+version=5.4.5
 release=1
 source=(http://www.php.net/distributions/php-$version.tar.bz2)
 
+# this version depends on internal libgd, as the
+# old way of building it: "--with-gd=shared,/usr"
+# does not work anymore
 build() {
 	cd php-$version
-
 	./configure --disable-all \
-				--with-gd=shared,/usr \
+				--with-gd=shared \
 				--with-png-dir=/usr \
 				--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
 				--with-freetype-dir=/usr \