diff --git a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
index 57464e9bbf..4afdb0a329 100644
--- a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
+++ b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ STRESS_NG_SITE = http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/tarballs/stress-ng
 STRESS_NG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 STRESS_NG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBBSD),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBBSD):$(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y:)
 STRESS_NG_DEPENDENCIES += libbsd
+else
+STRESS_NG_MAKE_OPTS += HAVE_LIB_BSD=0 HAVE_WCSLCAT=0 \
+	HAVE_WCSLCPY=0 HAVE_SETPROCTITLE=0
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_KEYUTILS),y)
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ STRESS_NG_DEPENDENCIES += keyutils
 endif
 
 define STRESS_NG_BUILD_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)
+	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(MAKE) $(STRESS_NG_MAKE_OPTS) -C $(@D)
 endef
 
 # Don't use make install otherwise stress-ng will be rebuild without