diff --git a/package/multimedia/wavpack/wavpack.mk b/package/multimedia/wavpack/wavpack.mk
index cd9b4f78bb..a7c703feae 100644
--- a/package/multimedia/wavpack/wavpack.mk
+++ b/package/multimedia/wavpack/wavpack.mk
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ WAVPACK_SOURCE = wavpack-$(WAVPACK_VERSION).tar.bz2
 WAVPACK_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # configure not up to date
 WAVPACK_AUTORECONF = YES
-WAVPACK_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE),libiconv)
+WAVPACK_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE),,libiconv)
 WAVPACK_LICENSE = BSD-3c
 WAVPACK_LICENSE_FILES = license.txt