diff --git a/app-misc/jq/jq-1.6.recipe b/app-misc/jq/jq-1.7.recipe
similarity index 59%
rename from app-misc/jq/jq-1.6.recipe
rename to app-misc/jq/jq-1.7.recipe
index df62fdaed..da6823202 100644
--- a/app-misc/jq/jq-1.6.recipe
+++ b/app-misc/jq/jq-1.7.recipe
@@ -7,13 +7,12 @@ You can download a single binary, scp it to a far away machine, \
 and expect it to work. It can mangle the data format that you have into \
 the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so \
 is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect."
-HOMEPAGE="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/"
+HOMEPAGE="http://jqlang.github.io/jq/"
 COPYRIGHT="2012,2015 Stephen Dolan"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-REVISION="3"
-SOURCE_URI="http://github.com/stedolan/jq/archive/jq-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="158182b85f3be9e23ab1dc50cfcc24e415aade2a0b8a5d9f709e0b587666d61b"
-SOURCE_DIR="jq-jq-$portVersion"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="http://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/download/jq-$portVersion/jq-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="402a0d6975d946e6f4e484d1a84320414a0ff8eb6cf49d2c11d144d4d344db62"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
@@ -23,43 +22,58 @@ if [ "$targetArchitecture" = x86_gcc2 ]; then
 	commandBinDir=$prefix/bin
 fi
 
+libVersion="1.0.4"
+libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= ${libVersion%%.*}"
 
 PROVIDES="
 	jq = $portVersion
 	cmd:jq = $portVersion
+	lib:libjq = $libVersionCompat
 	"
 REQUIRES="
 	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}
 	lib:libonig$secondaryArchSuffix
 	"
 
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	jq${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libjq = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	jq$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
 BUILD_REQUIRES="
 	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
 	devel:libonig$secondaryArchSuffix >= 5
 	"
 BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
-	cmd:aclocal
 	cmd:awk
-	cmd:autoconf
-	cmd:autoreconf
+	cmd:bison
+	cmd:diff
 	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
-	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:make
 	"
 
 BUILD()
 {
-	touch src/lexer.c src/parser.c
-	autoreconf -fi
-	runConfigure ./configure
+	# avoid a warning about not rebuilding lexer.c
+	touch src/lexer.c
+
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure --bindir=$commandBinDir --disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }
 
 INSTALL()
 {
-	mkdir -p $commandBinDir
-	cp -a jq $commandBinDir
+	make install
 
-	mkdir -p $manDir/man1
-	cp -a jq.1 $manDir/man1
+	prepareInstalledDevelLib libjq
+	fixPkgconfig
+	packageEntries devel $developDir
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
 }