diff --git a/databases/recutils/Makefile b/databases/recutils/Makefile
index 038cc62998c3..e55eb2eb24da 100644
--- a/databases/recutils/Makefile
+++ b/databases/recutils/Makefile
@@ -23,10 +23,15 @@ TEST_TARGET=	check
 INFO=		rec-mode recutils
 PORTDOCS=	AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
 
-OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS CURL GCRYPT MDB NLS
-OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	GCRYPT
+OPTIONS_DEFINE=	BASH DOCS CURL GCRYPT MDB NLS
+OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	CURL GCRYPT MDB
 OPTIONS_SUB=	yes
 
+BASH_DESC=	Build ${PORTNAME} bash(1) builtins
+BASH_BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/bash/config.h:shells/bash
+BASH_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-bash-headers=${LOCALBASE}/include/bash
+BASH_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--disable-bash-builtins
+
 CURL_LIB_DEPENDS=	libcurl.so:ftp/curl
 CURL_CONFIGURE_ENV_OFF=	ac_cv_lib_curl_curl_global_init=no
 
@@ -36,12 +41,17 @@ GCRYPT_LIB_DEPENDS=	libgcrypt.so:security/libgcrypt \
 GCRYPT_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--disable-encryption
 
 MDB_DESC=	MS Access database (.mdb) support
+MDB_BUILD_DEPENDS=	help2man:misc/help2man
 MDB_LIB_DEPENDS=	libmdb.so:databases/mdbtools
-MDB_CONFIGURE_ENV_OFF=	ac_cv_lib_mdb_mdb_init=no
+MDB_CONFIGURE_ENV_OFF=	ac_cv_lib_mdb_mdb_get_version=no
 
 NLS_USES=		gettext
 NLS_CONFIGURE_OFF=	--disable-nls
 
+post-patch:
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,mdb_init,mdb_get_version,' \
+		${WRKSRC}/configure
+
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/etc/*.el \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/emacs/site-lisp
diff --git a/databases/recutils/files/patch-utils_mdb2rec.c b/databases/recutils/files/patch-utils_mdb2rec.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1290edb9c1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/recutils/files/patch-utils_mdb2rec.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+--- utils/mdb2rec.c.orig	2019-01-03 08:47:43 UTC
++++ utils/mdb2rec.c
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
+ #include <gettext.h>
+ #define _(str) gettext (str)
+ 
+-#include <glib.h>
++#define HAVE_GLIB
+ #include <mdbtools.h>
+ 
+ #include <rec.h>
+@@ -472,16 +472,14 @@ process_mdb (void)
+   if (!db)
+     recutl_out_of_memory ();
+ 
+-  /* Initialize libmdb and open the input file.  */
+-  mdb_init();
+-  mdb_set_date_fmt ("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"); /* ISO 8601 */
+-
+   mdb = mdb_open (mdb2rec_mdb_file, MDB_NOFLAGS);
+   if (!mdb)
+     {
+       recutl_fatal (_("could not open file %s\n"),
+                     mdb2rec_mdb_file);
+     }
++
++  mdb_set_date_fmt (mdb, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"); /* ISO 8601 */
+ 
+   /* Read the catalog.  */
+   if (!mdb_read_catalog (mdb, MDB_TABLE))
diff --git a/databases/recutils/pkg-plist b/databases/recutils/pkg-plist
index 01ada69eaffa..c0be591493a5 100644
--- a/databases/recutils/pkg-plist
+++ b/databases/recutils/pkg-plist
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ lib/librec.a
 lib/librec.so
 lib/librec.so.1
 lib/librec.so.1.0.0
+%%BASH%%lib/readrec.a
+%%BASH%%lib/readrec.so
+%%BASH%%lib/readrec.so.0
+%%BASH%%lib/readrec.so.0.0.0
+%%BASH%%lib/testrec.a
+%%BASH%%lib/testrec.so
+%%BASH%%lib/testrec.so.0
+%%BASH%%lib/testrec.so.0.0.0
 man/man1/csv2rec.1.gz
 %%MDB%%man/man1/mdb2rec.1.gz
 man/man1/rec2csv.1.gz