diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/Makefile b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/Makefile
index 567388be3e2b..804c98b2d321 100644
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	XML-GDOME
 PORTVERSION=	0.86
 PORTREVISION=	5
 CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Perl module that provides the DOM Level 2 Core API for XML documents
 WWW=		https://metacpan.org/release/XML-GDOME
 
 LICENSE=	ART10 GPLv1+
 LICENSE_COMB=	dual
 
-BROKEN=		Fails to build with libxml2 2.14, error: unknown type name 'xmlChar'
+USE_GNOME=	glib20 libxml2
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${RUN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-XML-LibXML>=0:textproc/p5-XML-LibXML \
 		p5-XML-SAX>=0:textproc/p5-XML-SAX
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgdome.so:textproc/gdome2
 
-USES=		perl5 pkgconfig
+USES=		gettext-runtime gnome perl5 pkgconfig
 USE_PERL5=	configure
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-GDOME.xs b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-GDOME.xs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc64e111b90b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-GDOME.xs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- GDOME.xs.orig	2003-12-02 09:30:40 UTC
++++ GDOME.xs
+@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ extern "C" {
+ #include "XSUB.h"
+ 
+ /*#include <libxml/hash.h>*/
++#include <libxml/tree.h>
+ #include <libxml/xmlerror.h>
++#include <libxml/xmlstring.h>
+ #include "gdome.h"
+ #include "gdome-xpath.h"
+ /*#include "gdome-traversal.h"
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-dom.h b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-dom.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cad24884ee3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-XML-GDOME/files/patch-dom.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- dom.h.orig	2002-02-09 05:12:46 UTC
++++ dom.h
+@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+ #ifndef __LIBXML_DOM_H__
+ #define __LIBXML_DOM_H__
+ 
++#include <libxml/xmlstring.h>
++
+ xmlChar*
+ domEncodeString( const char *encoding, const char *string );
+ char*