diff --git a/.checkpackageignore b/.checkpackageignore
index f5b158c450..298d080475 100644
--- a/.checkpackageignore
+++ b/.checkpackageignore
@@ -1014,7 +1014,6 @@ package/rapidxml/0001-ensure-internal-print-operations-are-declared-before.patch
 package/read-edid/0001-Fix-install-file-list.patch lib_patch.Upstream
 package/read-edid/0002-Fix-compiler-check.patch lib_patch.Upstream
 package/read-edid/0003-fix-build-with-gcc-10.patch lib_patch.Upstream
-package/readline/0001-curses-link.patch lib_patch.Upstream
 package/redis/0001-uclibc.patch lib_patch.Upstream
 package/redis/0002-largefile-conditional-define.patch lib_patch.Upstream
 package/redis/0003-redis.conf-adjust-defauts-for-buildroot.patch lib_patch.Upstream
diff --git a/package/readline/0001-curses-link.patch b/package/readline/0001-curses-link.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6afc5ba078..0000000000
--- a/package/readline/0001-curses-link.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-link readline directly to ncurses since it needs symbols from it
-
-upstream readline does this on purpose (no direct linking), but
-it doesn't make much sense in a Linux world
-
-Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
-
---- a/support/shobj-conf
-+++ b/support/shobj-conf
-@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
- SHOBJ_LIBS=
- 
- SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=
--SHLIB_LIBS=
-+SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
- 
- SHLIB_DOT='.'
- SHLIB_LIBPREF='lib'
diff --git a/package/readline/readline.mk b/package/readline/readline.mk
index f46d6783f1..f69cbe45e2 100644
--- a/package/readline/readline.mk
+++ b/package/readline/readline.mk
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ READLINE_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses host-autoconf
 HOST_READLINE_DEPENDENCIES = host-ncurses host-autoconf
 READLINE_CONF_ENV = bash_cv_func_sigsetjmp=yes \
 	bash_cv_wcwidth_broken=no
-READLINE_CONF_OPTS = --disable-install-examples
+READLINE_CONF_OPTS = \
+	--disable-install-examples \
+	--with-curses \
+	--with-shared-termcap-library
 READLINE_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+
 READLINE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 READLINE_CPE_ID_VENDOR = gnu