diff --git a/astro/saoimage/Makefile b/astro/saoimage/Makefile
index 70471cad96ca..0584139d51cb 100644
--- a/astro/saoimage/Makefile
+++ b/astro/saoimage/Makefile
@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	saoimage
-PORTVERSION=	1.26.10
+PORTVERSION=	1.27.2
 CATEGORIES=	astro
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/gsc/SAOimage/
 
 MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 
-MAKEFILE=	makefile
-ALL_TARGET=	${OPSYS}
 USE_X_PREFIX=	yes
+MAKEFILE=	makefile
+MAKE_ENV=	OFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+ALL_TARGET=	${OPSYS}
+
 MAN1=		saoimage.1
 
 do-install:
diff --git a/astro/saoimage/distinfo b/astro/saoimage/distinfo
index a958e8298a2f..66465bb47b8c 100644
--- a/astro/saoimage/distinfo
+++ b/astro/saoimage/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (saoimage-1.26.10.tar.gz) = 48160a31760aef33be756c14b1df2f9d
+MD5 (saoimage-1.27.2.tar.gz) = ec7bb4c3b1c786aa137a83a139a5ea2a
diff --git a/astro/saoimage/files/patch-aa b/astro/saoimage/files/patch-aa
index 050999c21fea..ef396b170318 100644
--- a/astro/saoimage/files/patch-aa
+++ b/astro/saoimage/files/patch-aa
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 --- makefile.FreeBSD.orig	Sat Nov  6 06:57:30 1999
-+++ makefile.FreeBSD	Mon Feb 28 02:57:59 2000
++++ makefile.FreeBSD	Sat Apr 22 02:58:08 2000
 @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@
  # FBCONFIG_2, which is set to the value of IMTOOLRC in the definition of
  # the CFLAGS macro below.)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
  
  #OFLAGS = -g -DDEBUG
 -OFLAGS = -O2 -m486 -pipe
-+#OFLAGS = -O2 -m486 -pipe
++OFLAGS ?= -O2 -m486 -pipe
  
  # ADFLAGS: architecture-dependent floating point flags, etc.
  
@@ -46,12 +46,3 @@
  #XLIB = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11	# ATTENTION: OpenWindows users...
  #F77LIB = -lF77 -lI77 -lU77
  F77LIB = -lf2c
-@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
- RM     = rm -f
- SHELL  = /bin/sh
- 
--CFLAGS = $(OFLAGS) $(ADFLAGS) $(MFLAGS) $(IFLAGS) -DFBCONFIG_2=\"$(IMTOOLRC)\"
-+CFLAGS += $(OFLAGS) $(ADFLAGS) $(MFLAGS) $(IFLAGS) -DFBCONFIG_2=\"$(IMTOOLRC)\"
- 
- # SAOimage libraries that live in subdirectories with their own makefiles.
- # This definition must be kept in correspondence with the DEPLIBS target.