diff --git a/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/Makefile b/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/Makefile
index 6cbb22ccdcb3..3d7e25248969 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/Makefile
+++ b/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,42 @@
 PORTNAME=	check_mysql_health
 DISTVERSION=	3.0.0.5
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTREVISION=	3
 CATEGORIES=	net-mgmt
 MASTER_SITES=	https://labs.consol.de/assets/downloads/nagios/
 
 MAINTAINER=	kirill@varnakov.com
 COMMENT=	Nagios plugin to check various parameters of a MySQL database
 WWW=		https://labs.consol.de/de/nagios/check_mysql_health/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${DBD_MYSQL}
 
 USES=		autoreconf mysql perl5 gmake
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-statefiles-dir=${NAGIOSDIR} \
 		--with-nagios-user=${NAGIOSUSER} \
 		--with-nagios-group=${NAGIOSGROUP} \
 		--with-mymodules-dir=${PREFIX}/libexec/nagios \
 		--with-mymodules-dyn-dir=${PREFIX}/libexec/nagios \
 		--libexecdir=${PREFIX}/libexec/nagios \
 		--with-perl=${PERL}
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 NAGIOSUSER?=	nagios
 NAGIOSGROUP?=	nagios
 NAGIOSDIR?=	/var/spool/nagios
 
 PLIST_FILES=	libexec/nagios/check_mysql_health
 
+.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
+
+# Change regexp for older awk
+.if ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ${OSVERSION} < 1400000
+EXTRA_PATCHES=	${PATCHDIR}/extra-patch-plugins-scripts_subst.in
+.endif
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/files/extra-patch-plugins-scripts_subst.in b/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/files/extra-patch-plugins-scripts_subst.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..22497c07c761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-mgmt/check_mysql_health/files/extra-patch-plugins-scripts_subst.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- plugins-scripts/subst.in.orig	2016-08-01 16:28:29.583644100 +0000
++++ plugins-scripts/subst.in	2025-05-12 18:58:53.592280000 +0000
+@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
+
+ /^#! ?\/.*\/python/ {sub(/^#! ?\/.*\/python/,"#! @PYTHON@");}
+ /^#! ?\/.*\/perl/ {sub(/^#! ?\/.*\/perl/,"#! @PERL@");}
+-/^#! ?\/.*\/[a-z]{0,2}awk/ {sub(/^#! ?\/.*\/[a-z]{0,2}awk/,"#! @AWK@");}
++/^#! ?\/.*\/[a-z]?[a-z]?awk/ {sub(/^#! ?\/.*\/[a-z]?[a-z]?awk/,"#! @AWK@");}
+ /^#! ?\/.*\/sh/ {sub(/^#! ?\/.*\/sh/,"#! @SHELL@");}
+
+ # add to libexecdir to INC for perl utils.pm