diff --git a/audio/epos-devel/Makefile b/audio/epos-devel/Makefile
index 7547bb046069..5642333551c1 100644
--- a/audio/epos-devel/Makefile
+++ b/audio/epos-devel/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ LICENSE=	GPLv2 LGPL20
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 
 USES=		bison gmake
-NO_STAGE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	ac_cv_lib_stdcpp_main=no
 
@@ -21,5 +20,7 @@ post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^\(SUBDIRS =.*\)doc/\1/' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.in
 	@${FIND} ${WRKSRC} -name "Makefile.in" | ${XARGS} ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		's|-ggdb||'
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|<iostream.h>|<iostream>|' \
+		${WRKSRC}/src/nnet/neural.cc
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/epos-devel/pkg-descr b/audio/epos-devel/pkg-descr
index 9692b5d2fbde..8716d97424d2 100644
--- a/audio/epos-devel/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/epos-devel/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-From the Epos homepage:
-
 Epos is a language independent rule-driven Text-to-Speech (TTS) system 
 primarily designed to serve as a research tool. Epos is (or tries to be) 
 independent of the language processed, linguistic description method,