diff --git a/package/esden/wavemon/wavemon.conf b/package/esden/wavemon/wavemon.conf
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+# the following is needed to link against a static ncurses library
+# that dynamically links to libgpm
+var_append configprefix " " "LDFLAGS=\"\$LDFLAGS -ldl\""