diff --git a/package/esden/w3m/w3m.conf b/package/esden/w3m/w3m.conf
index c41621b7b..74a065937 100644
--- a/package/esden/w3m/w3m.conf
+++ b/package/esden/w3m/w3m.conf
@@ -21,3 +21,8 @@
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--enable-gopher"
+
+# this is an ugly hack. for some reason the default "--as-needed -lgcc_s
+# --no-as-needed" does not include gcc_s when it is needed...
+var_append GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT ' ' '-lgcc_s'
+