diff --git a/archivers/gtar/Makefile b/archivers/gtar/Makefile
index b2ce4237387b..a997474f2f66 100644
--- a/archivers/gtar/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/gtar/Makefile
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	tar
 PORTVERSION=	1.13.23
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=	g
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	archivers sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ \
 		ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ \
 		ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	g
 
 MAINTAINER=	naddy@FreeBSD.org
 
diff --git a/archivers/gtar/files/patch-lib_copysym.c b/archivers/gtar/files/patch-lib_copysym.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42c9573e259b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/gtar/files/patch-lib_copysym.c
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+$FreeBSD$
+
+--- lib/copysym.c.orig	Sun Nov  4 17:03:34 2001
++++ lib/copysym.c	Sun Nov  4 17:04:08 2001
+@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
+ #endif
+     }
+ 
+-  if (*outcharset)
++  if (outcharset && *outcharset)
+     {
+       iconv_t conv = iconv_open (outcharset, "UTF-8");
+