diff --git a/lang/nickle/Makefile b/lang/nickle/Makefile
index e677661af1d9..86b5f00019bc 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/Makefile
+++ b/lang/nickle/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	nickle
-PORTVERSION=	2.47
+PORTVERSION=	2.54
 CATEGORIES=	lang
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.nickle.org/release/
 
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ COMMENT=	A desk calculator language
 
 USE_GMAKE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-CONFIGURE_TARGET=	--build=${MACHINE_ARCH}-portbld-freebsd${OSREL}
+USE_GNOME=	gnometarget
+CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--mandir=${PREFIX}/man
 
 # Nickle now has bindings which are likely to pull in libraries that need
 # libpthread.  Link to it now, since it wouldn't work at runtime.
diff --git a/lang/nickle/distinfo b/lang/nickle/distinfo
index ed331d652f24..97bb42349864 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/distinfo
+++ b/lang/nickle/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (nickle-2.47.tar.gz) = 0e7ab6db53e0ed925056cf65f750d43b
-SHA256 (nickle-2.47.tar.gz) = a594f0eb8294b2a102bc581332027da93c7fe8a83f1b4442d3b777760c6f6b2b
-SIZE (nickle-2.47.tar.gz) = 385176
+MD5 (nickle-2.54.tar.gz) = ffc7b03a830e64ec0547777330ae00b8
+SHA256 (nickle-2.54.tar.gz) = 434d90d76ad98182e88c1896f6235e67742a05832c638b5a7cbf39d2b232a8fb
+SIZE (nickle-2.54.tar.gz) = 396983
diff --git a/lang/nickle/pkg-plist b/lang/nickle/pkg-plist
index 87f4060b6c90..189b1167891c 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/pkg-plist
+++ b/lang/nickle/pkg-plist
@@ -54,12 +54,13 @@ include/nickle/value.h
 %%DATADIR%%/parse-args.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/printf.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/prng.5c
+%%DATADIR%%/process.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/scanf.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/socket.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/string.5c
 %%DATADIR%%/svg.5c
-@dirrm %%DATADIR%%/examples/turtle/
+@dirrm %%DATADIR%%/examples/turtle
 @dirrm %%DATADIR%%/examples/smlng
 @dirrm %%DATADIR%%/examples
-@unexec /bin/rmdir %D/%%DATADIR%% 2>/dev/null || true
+@dirrm %%DATADIR%%
 @dirrm include/nickle