diff --git a/dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.1.recipe b/dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.3.recipe
similarity index 72%
rename from dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.1.recipe
rename to dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.3.recipe
index 75c4be082..6a60b0a8b 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-cpp/yaml_cpp/yaml_cpp-0.5.3.recipe
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ DESCRIPTION="yaml-cpp is a YAML parser and emitter in C++ matching the YAML \
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/"
 COPYRIGHT="2008 Jesse Beder"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/archive/release-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="0c88c49889e9b69e67a7ed55938bb3f8063fa787cfd36fc810ee01ef342e1e77"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="ac50a27a201d16dc69a881b80ad39a7be66c4d755eda1f76c3a68781b922af8f"
 SOURCE_DIR="yaml-cpp-release-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 
 BUILD()
 {
-	cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$prefix .
+	cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$prefix .
 	make $jobArgs
 }
 
@@ -64,3 +65,15 @@ INSTALL()
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir
 }
+
+TEST()
+{
+	# tests make the build considerably longer
+	# TODO: fail with: The current thread is not holding the mutex @0xf96b94
+	# probably because gtest is not ported (also it uses bundled one)
+	cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TOOLS=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$prefix .
+	make $jobArgs
+	cd test
+	./run-tests
+}