diff --git a/package/quota/quota.mk b/package/quota/quota.mk
index 5011c0fc2c..0e7a2b0d80 100644
--- a/package/quota/quota.mk
+++ b/package/quota/quota.mk
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ QUOTA_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/linuxquota/quota-tools/$(Q
 QUOTA_DEPENDENCIES = host-gettext
 QUOTA_AUTORECONF = YES
 QUOTA_LICENSE = GPLv2+
+QUOTA_CONF_OPTS = --disable-strip-binaries
 
 QUOTA_CFLAGS = $(TARGET_CFLAGS)
 QUOTA_LDFLAGS = $(TARGET_LDFLAGS)