diff --git a/textproc/tesseract/Portfile b/textproc/tesseract/Portfile
index 4b0890fc198a6..1699c24461414 100644
--- a/textproc/tesseract/Portfile
+++ b/textproc/tesseract/Portfile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 PortSystem          1.0
 PortGroup           github 1.0
 PortGroup           compiler_blacklist_versions 1.0
+PortGroup           legacysupport 1.1
 
 name                tesseract
 
@@ -12,6 +13,9 @@ if {${subport} in [list tesseract tesseract-training]} {
     checksums       rmd160  d21bc77911627900ad32b084ffbd39d3d339aee3 \
                     sha256  37e38d561ebeadc24f1e0614f5213761e4c281a93e998978edcdefb5e2da5c98 \
                     size    1900262
+
+    legacysupport.newest_darwin_requires_legacy 17
+    legacysupport.use_mp_libcxx                 yes
 } elseif {[variant_isset best]} {
     github.setup    tesseract-ocr tessdata_best  4.1.0
     checksums       rmd160  753e227df9393d064a78d3243a5bc6fdce20f73c \