diff --git a/games/naev/Makefile b/games/naev/Makefile
index f807caa89d5f..c7a562999b49 100644
--- a/games/naev/Makefile
+++ b/games/naev/Makefile
@@ -1,56 +1,53 @@
 PORTNAME=	naev
 PORTVERSION=	0.10.6
-PORTREVISION=	2
 DISTVERSIONSUFFIX=	-source
+PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	games
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/naev/naev/releases/download/v${PORTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	acm@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	2D action/RPG space game
 WWW=		https://naev.org/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2 GPLv3 CC-BY-3.0 CC-BY-SA-3.0 PD
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mutagen>0:audio/py-mutagen@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}yaml>0:devel/py-yaml@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libamd.so:math/suitesparse-amd \
 		libbacktrace.so:devel/libbacktrace \
 		libblas.so:math/blas \
 		libcholmod.so:math/suitesparse-cholmod \
 		libcolamd.so:math/suitesparse-colamd \
 		libcxsparse.so:math/suitesparse-cxsparse \
 		libenet.so:net/enet \
 		libfreetype.so:print/freetype2 \
 		libglpk.so:math/glpk \
 		libopenblas.so:math/openblas \
 		libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2 \
 		libphysfs.so:devel/physfs \
 		libpng.so:graphics/png \
 		libunibreak.so:textproc/libunibreak \
 		libvorbisfile.so:audio/libvorbis \
 		libwebp.so:graphics/webp \
  		libzip.so:archivers/libzip
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}mutagen>0:audio/py-mutagen@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}yaml>0:devel/py-yaml@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		desktop-file-utils gettext gl gnome luajit:luajit-openresty \
-		meson openal pkgconfig python sdl shebangfix tar:xz
+USES=		desktop-file-utils gettext gl gnome localbase:ldflags \
+		luajit:luajit-openresty meson openal pkgconfig python sdl \
+		shebangfix tar:xz
 USE_GL=		gl glu
 USE_GNOME=	intltool libxml2
 USE_SDL=	sdl2 image2
-SHEBANG_LANG=	python
-SHEBANG_GLOB=	*.py
 
-# work around meson not looking for headers/libs in /usr/local
-CFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
-LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
+SHEBANG_GLOB=	*.py
+SHEBANG_LANG=	python
 
 MESON_ARGS=	-Ddocs_c=disabled -Ddocs_lua=disabled
 
-WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}
+BINARY_ALIAS=	python3=${PYTHON_CMD}
 
-post-patch:
-	${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|python3|${PYTHON_VERSION}|g' ${WRKSRC}/meson.build
+WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>