diff --git a/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile b/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
index e69a955894d1..c71e6155f486 100644
--- a/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
+++ b/devel/universal-ctags/Makefile
@@ -1,51 +1,55 @@
 PORTNAME=	universal-ctags
 PORTVERSION=	p6.0.20230723.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com
 COMMENT=	Fork of Exuberant Ctags to generate index/tag files
 WWW=		https://ctags.io/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 USES=		autoreconf gmake pkgconfig python:test
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_PROJECT=	ctags
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--program-prefix=u
 
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 
 PORTSCOUT=	skipv:v6.0.0
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DEBUG ICONV JSON LIBXML2 MANPAGES PCRE2 YAML
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	${OPTIONS_DEFINE:NDEBUG}
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DEBUG GLOBAL_CONFIG ICONV JSON LIBXML2 MANPAGES PCRE2 \
+			YAML
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	${OPTIONS_DEFINE:NDEBUG:NGLOBAL_CONFIG}
 OPTIONS_SUB=		yes
 
-JSON_DESC=	JSON output support
-PCRE2_DESC=	${PCRE_DESC} v2
+GLOBAL_CONFIG_DESC=	Enable reading global config from ${LOCALBASE}/etc/uctags.conf
+JSON_DESC=		JSON output support
+PCRE2_DESC=		${PCRE_DESC} v2
 
 DEBUG_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	debugging
 
+GLOBAL_CONFIG_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	custom-config="${LOCALBASE}/etc/uctags.conf"
+
 ICONV_USES=		iconv
 ICONV_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	iconv
 
 # Extra support for YAML and XML based languages
 JSON_LIB_DEPENDS=	libjansson.so:devel/jansson
 JSON_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	json
 
 LIBXML2_LIB_DEPENDS=		libxml2.so:textproc/libxml2
 LIBXML2_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	xml
 
 MANPAGES_BUILD_DEPENDS=		rst2man:textproc/py-docutils
 MANPAGES_CONFIGURE_WITH=	rst2man=${LOCALBASE}/bin/rst2man
 
 PCRE2_LIB_DEPENDS=	libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2
 PCRE2_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	pcre2
 
 YAML_LIB_DEPENDS=	libyaml.so:textproc/libyaml
 YAML_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	yaml
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>