diff --git a/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c b/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
index 65b372e5415a..1a9d0e116848 100644
--- a/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
+++ b/devel/libev/files/patch-ev.c
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 --- ev.c.orig	2020-03-18 12:27:32 UTC
 +++ ev.c
-@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
+@@ -507,7 +507,11 @@
  #endif
  
  #if EV_USE_INOTIFY
 -# include <sys/statfs.h>
-+# include <sys/mount.h>
++# ifdef __FreeBSD__
++#  include <sys/mount.h>
++# else
++#  include <sys/statfs.h>
++# endif
  # 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
+@@ -3149,7 +3153,7 @@ 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;