diff --git a/srcpkgs/neverball/template b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
index 052a06bcc75..41df46436e8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/neverball/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Add_dependency full desktop-file-utils
 
 do_build()
 {
-	HOME=/ LANG=C make ${makejobs} \
+	HOME=/ LANG=C LC_ALL=C LDFLAGS="-lm -lX11" make ${makejobs} \
 		ENABLE_NLS=1 DATADIR=/usr/share/neverball \
 		LOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale
 }