diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
index 2bf0d93d89..64b4853a65 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
@@ -1482,13 +1482,10 @@ GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes</programlisting>
 
       <para>If it ever fails to, hints at the location of
 	<literal>gettext</literal> can be passed in
-	<envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> and <envar>LDFLAGS</envar> as
-	follows:</para>
-
-      <programlisting>USES=	gettext
-CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
-LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
+	<envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> and <envar>LDFLAGS</envar> using
+	<literal>localbase</literal> as follows:</para>
 
+      <programlisting>USES=	gettext localbase:ldflags
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes</programlisting>
     </sect2>
 
@@ -2037,11 +2034,9 @@ MASTER_SITES=	 GNOME
 MAINTAINER=	 kwm@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	 Interactive tool for performing search and replace operations
 
-USES=		 gettext gmake pathfix pkgconfig tar:xz
+USES=		 gettext gmake localbase:ldflags pathfix pkgconfig tar:xz
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 USE_GNOME=	 gnomeprefix intlhack gtksourceviewmm3
-CPPFLAGS+=	 -I${LOCALBASE}/include
-LDFLAGS+=	 -L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 INSTALLS_ICONS= yes
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	 org.regexxer.gschema.xml