diff --git a/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.hash b/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.hash
index 033692d4c4..bf7828dbd0 100644
--- a/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.hash
+++ b/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=show_md5&digest=b5a15b03bf402fe254636c015fcf04da
 md5 b5a15b03bf402fe254636c015fcf04da  Pillow-3.3.0.tar.gz
 # sha256 locally computed
-sha256 031e7c9c885a4f343d1ad366c7fd2340449dc70318acb4a28d6411994f0accd1  Pillow-3.2.0.tar.gz
+sha256 031e7c9c885a4f343d1ad366c7fd2340449dc70318acb4a28d6411994f0accd1  Pillow-3.3.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.mk b/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.mk
index 84d6e65d68..619c55b865 100644
--- a/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.mk
+++ b/package/python-pillow/python-pillow.mk
@@ -54,11 +54,20 @@ else
 PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_OPTS += --disable-zlib
 endif
 
-PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_CMDS = cd $(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILDDIR); \
+define PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_CMDS
+	cd $(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILDDIR); \
 		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_BASE_ENV) $(PYTHON_PILLOW_ENV) \
 		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_PYTHON_INTERPRETER) setup.py build_ext \
 		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_BASE_BUILD_OPTS) $(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_OPTS)
+endef
 
-PYTHON_PILLOW_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS = $(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_CMDS) install
+define PYTHON_PILLOW_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	cd $(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILDDIR); \
+		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_BASE_ENV) $(PYTHON_PILLOW_ENV) \
+		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_PYTHON_INTERPRETER) setup.py build_ext \
+		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_BUILD_OPTS) install \
+		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_BASE_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS) \
+		$(PYTHON_PILLOW_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS)
+endef
 
 $(eval $(python-package))