diff --git a/devel/libev/files/patch-Makefile.in b/devel/libev/files/patch-Makefile.in
index 5f6ab0fc3b55..509149e2548b 100644
--- a/devel/libev/files/patch-Makefile.in
+++ b/devel/libev/files/patch-Makefile.in
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---- Makefile.in.orig	2015-12-20 21:12:45 UTC
+--- Makefile.in.orig	2020-03-18 12:27:30 UTC
 +++ Makefile.in
-@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = LICENSE Changes libev.m4 au
+@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ man_MANS = ev.3
  	     ev.3 ev.pod Symbols.ev Symbols.event
  
  man_MANS = ev.3
 -include_HEADERS = ev.h ev++.h event.h
 +include_HEADERS = ev.h ev++.h
  lib_LTLIBRARIES = libev.la
  libev_la_SOURCES = ev.c event.c
  libev_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info $(VERSION_INFO)
diff --git a/devel/libev/files/patch-configure b/devel/libev/files/patch-configure
index c92f6cf66003..6e5bf586cf34 100644
--- a/devel/libev/files/patch-configure
+++ b/devel/libev/files/patch-configure
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
---- configure.orig	2015-12-20 21:12:45 UTC
+--- configure.orig	2020-03-18 12:27:26 UTC
 +++ configure
-@@ -3879,14 +3879,6 @@ else
+@@ -3954,14 +3954,6 @@ fi
  fi
  
  
 -
 -if test -z "$orig_CFLAGS"; then
 -  if test x$GCC = xyes; then
 -    CFLAGS="-g -O3"
 -  fi
 -fi
 -
 -
  case `pwd` in
    *\ * | *\	*)
      { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in \`pwd\`" >&5
diff --git a/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c b/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
index 28a00f3aaf8b..65b372e5415a 100644
--- a/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
+++ b/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
---- ev.c.orig	2015-12-20 21:12:53 UTC
+--- ev.c.orig	2020-03-18 12:27:32 UTC
 +++ ev.c
-@@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@ ev_recommended_backends (void) EV_THROW
+@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ #if EV_USE_INOTIFY
+-# include <sys/statfs.h>
++# include <sys/mount.h>
+ # include <sys/inotify.h>
+ /* some very old inotify.h headers don't have IN_DONT_FOLLOW */
+ # ifndef IN_DONT_FOLLOW
+@@ -3149,7 +3149,7 @@ ev_recommended_backends (void) EV_NOEXCEPT
  {
    unsigned int flags = ev_supported_backends ();
  
 -#ifndef __NetBSD__
 +#if !defined(__NetBSD__) && !defined(__FreeBSD__)
    /* kqueue is borked on everything but netbsd apparently */
    /* it usually doesn't work correctly on anything but sockets and pipes */
    flags &= ~EVBACKEND_KQUEUE;