diff --git a/srcpkgs/man-db/template b/srcpkgs/man-db/template
index ad67d133bb3..875dd0623b9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/man-db/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/man-db/template
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ configure_args="--with-db=db --with-pager=less --with-gzip=/usr/bin/gzip
  --with-lzma=/usr/bin/lzma --with-xz=/usr/bin/xz --disable-setuid
  --without-included-regex --enable-automatic-create --sbindir=/usr/bin"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config groff"
-makedepends="db-devel zlib-devel libpipeline-devel groff"
+makedepends="gettext-devel db-devel zlib-devel libpipeline-devel groff"
 depends="bzip2 gzip less groff grep coreutils"
 conflicts="mdocml>=0"
 conf_files="/etc/man_db.conf"
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ homepage="http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/"
 distfiles="${NONGNU_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=c4876204a3fafb4d8ccc1d172c0431ee581d95558cbd6c4e79caca7717049e0e
 
+pre_configure() {
+	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+		*-musl) CFLAGS+=" -I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/gettext"
+			LDFLAGS+=" -lintl";;
+	esac
+}
 post_install() {
 	# Install the cron daily job.
 	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/man-db.cron-daily 744 etc/cron.daily man-db