diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/package.mk b/packages/devel/gettext/package.mk
index f98b53ad81..a3ce4ab710 100644
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/gettext/package.mk
@@ -21,3 +21,10 @@ PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--disable-static --enable-shared \
                          --disable-native-java \
                          --disable-csharp \
                          --without-emacs"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-rpath"
+
+post_configure_target() {
+  libtool_remove_rpath gettext-runtime/libasprintf/libtool
+  libtool_remove_rpath gettext-tools/libtool
+}