diff --git a/devel/cook/Makefile b/devel/cook/Makefile
index c6273ca99913..acb7a62609ea 100644
--- a/devel/cook/Makefile
+++ b/devel/cook/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	cook
 PORTVERSION=	2.30
 PORTREVISION=	3
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook/ \
 		LOCAL/jasone
 
 MAINTAINER=	jasone@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Like make(1), but more powerful and clean
 WWW=		http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook/
 
+LICENSE=	GPLv3
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+BROKEN=	fails to build: a space character is not allowed in an escape sequence parameter
+DEPRECATED=	Upstream last release was in 2008
+EXPIRATION_DATE=	2023-12-31
+
+USES=		gettext groff localbase:ldflags perl5
+
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	YACC=yacc
-CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
-LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
-MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=	yes
 
-USES=		gettext groff perl5
 DESTDIRNAME=	RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=	yes
 
 # Make sure that the whole directory tree exists.
 pre-install:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/cook/en/man1
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/cook/en/LC_MESSAGES
 
 # cook installs extra copies of the manpages in a directory that MANLANG can't
 # cope with.  Delete the extra copies.
 post-install:
 	@${RM} -r ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/cook/en/man1
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/cook/files/patch-common_ac_time.h b/devel/cook/files/patch-common_ac_time.h
index 2e4718d4ded9..6b2e29f77c31 100644
--- a/devel/cook/files/patch-common_ac_time.h
+++ b/devel/cook/files/patch-common_ac_time.h
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---- common/ac/time.h.orig	Fri Nov 29 23:15:13 2002
-+++ common/ac/time.h	Fri Nov 29 23:15:27 2002
-@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
+--- common/ac/time.h.orig	2007-09-30 13:52:44 UTC
++++ common/ac/time.h
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   * Catch-22: Dec Alpha OSF/1: need to include time.h before sys/time.h
   * before time.h
   */
 -#ifdef __alpha__
 +#ifdef __osf1__
  #ifndef _CLOCK_ID_T
  #define _CLOCK_ID_T
  typedef int clockid_t;