diff --git a/package/htop/Config.in b/package/htop/Config.in
index 7bb0fe6e07..214a9a1c99 100644
--- a/package/htop/Config.in
+++ b/package/htop/Config.in
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_HTOP
 	bool "htop"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlopen()
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
 	help
 	  htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Linux.
 	  It aims to be a better top.
 
 	  https://htop.dev/
+
+comment "htop needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS
diff --git a/package/htop/htop.mk b/package/htop/htop.mk
index bb6185a56d..25d1a9a129 100644
--- a/package/htop/htop.mk
+++ b/package/htop/htop.mk
@@ -18,11 +18,4 @@ else
 HTOP_CONF_OPTS += --disable-unicode
 endif
 
-# ARC uses an old uClibc that needs dladdr() for backtrace support,
-# which doesn't work for static only scenario, so as a workaround, we
-# pretend that execinfo.h is not available.
-ifeq ($(BR2_arc)$(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),yy)
-HTOP_CONF_ENV += ac_cv_header_execinfo_h=no
-endif
-
 $(eval $(autotools-package))