diff --git a/devel/jsoncpp/Makefile b/devel/jsoncpp/Makefile
index 02819aa9b..a48bb5e79 100644
--- a/devel/jsoncpp/Makefile
+++ b/devel/jsoncpp/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ HOMEPAGE =		https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/wiki
 # Public Domain / MIT
 PERMIT_PACKAGE =	Yes
 
-WANTLIB =		m ${COMPILER_LIBCXX}
+WANTLIB =		c m ${COMPILER_LIBCXX}
 
 COMPILER =		base-clang ports-gcc base-gcc
 
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ MODPY_RUNDEP =		No
 
 TEST_ENV +=	LD_PRELOAD=${WRKBUILD}/libjsoncpp.so.${LIBjsoncpp_VERSION}
 
+CXXFLAGS +=     -I${LOCALBASE}/lib
+LDFLAGS +=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lc
+
+CONFIGURE_ARGS +=-Dcpp_args="${CXXFLAGS}" -Dcpp_link_args="${LDFLAGS}"
+
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/doc/jsoncpp
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/{AUTHORS,LICENSE,README.md} \
diff --git a/devel/jsoncpp/patches/patch-pkg-config_jsoncpp_pc_in b/devel/jsoncpp/patches/patch-pkg-config_jsoncpp_pc_in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb9d7e139
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/jsoncpp/patches/patch-pkg-config_jsoncpp_pc_in
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Index: pkg-config/jsoncpp.pc.in
+--- pkg-config/jsoncpp.pc.in.orig
++++ pkg-config/jsoncpp.pc.in
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+-prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+-exec_prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+-libdir=@libdir_for_pc_file@
+-includedir=@includedir_for_pc_file@
++prefix=${TRUEPREFIX}
++exec_prefix=${TRUEPREFIX}
++libdir=${TRUEPREFIX}/lib
++includedir=${TRUEPREFIX}/include/jsoncpp
+ 
+ Name: jsoncpp
+ Description: A C++ library for interacting with JSON