diff --git a/devel/charva/Makefile b/devel/charva/Makefile
index e68cdb067b37..7a17e5b90e7d 100644
--- a/devel/charva/Makefile
+++ b/devel/charva/Makefile
@@ -1,49 +1,50 @@
 PORTNAME=	charva
 PORTVERSION=	1.1.4
 PORTREVISION=	7
 CATEGORIES=	devel java
 MASTER_SITES=	SF/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ale@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Java Windowing Toolkit for Text Terminals
 WWW=		http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	gmake:devel/gmake
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${JAVALIBDIR}/commons-logging.jar:java/apache-commons-logging
 
 BROKEN_armv6=		fails to compile: build.xml: compilation failed
 BROKEN_armv7=		fails to compile: build.xml: compilation failed
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 USES=		dos2unix java:ant,run zip
 DOS2UNIX_GLOB=	build.xml Makefile.freebsd.txt *.c *.java
+JAVA_VERSION=	8 # javah is not availabile in JDK11+
 
 ALL_TARGET=	clean makeDLL dist
 
 PLIST_FILES=	${JAVAJARDIR}/${PORTNAME}.jar \
 		${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/${MACHINE_ARCH}/libTerminal.so
 PORTDOCS=	*
 
 DOCS_ALL_TARGET=	javadoc
 
 do-install:
 	@${ECHO_MSG} -n ">> Installing JAR file as ${JAVAJARDIR}/${PORTNAME}.jar..."
 	@${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/java/dist/lib/${PORTNAME}.jar \
 		${STAGEDIR}${JAVAJARDIR}/${PORTNAME}.jar
 	@${ECHO_MSG} " [DONE]"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} -n ">> Installing JNI library as ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/${MACHINE_ARCH}/libTerminal.so..."
 	-@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/${MACHINE_ARCH}
 	@${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/c/lib/libTerminal.so \
 		${STAGEDIR}${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/${MACHINE_ARCH}/libTerminal.so
 	@${ECHO_MSG} " [DONE]"
 
 do-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${ECHO_MSG} -n ">> Installing documentation..."
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/docs && ${FIND} * \
 	  | ${CPIO} -pdmu -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR} > /dev/null 2>&1
 	@${ECHO_MSG} " [DONE]"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>