diff --git a/misc/scripts/makeosxtags.sh b/misc/scripts/makeosxtags.sh
index 1509eec6f9..21ed989300 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/makeosxtags.sh
+++ b/misc/scripts/makeosxtags.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 . `dirname $0`/makeunixtags.sh
 create_tags osx
 
-osx_port=${1-carbon}
+osx_port=${1-cocoa}
 if [[ $osx_port = carbon ]]; then
     ext=cpp
 else