diff --git a/math/nlopt/Makefile b/math/nlopt/Makefile
index 7c68f67258a4..bc0079d7d58b 100644
--- a/math/nlopt/Makefile
+++ b/math/nlopt/Makefile
@@ -1,33 +1,30 @@
 # Created by: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
 
 PORTNAME=	nlopt
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	2.7.1
 CATEGORIES=	math
 
 MAINTAINER=	rhurlin@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Nonlinear optimization library
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL21 MIT
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 BROKEN_armv6=	fails to package: Unable to access file site-packages/_nlopt.a:No such file or directory
 BROKEN_armv7=	fails to package: Unable to access file site-packages/_nlopt.a:No such file or directory
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	swig:devel/swig \
 		${PYNUMPY}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgmp.so:math/gmp \
 		libguile-2.2.so:lang/guile2
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
 
-USES=		cmake:testing compiler:features pathfix pkgconfig python
+USES=		cmake:testing compiler:features localbase pathfix pkgconfig python
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	stevengj
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
-# Needed to find gmp.h
-CFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
-
 .include <bsd.port.mk>