diff --git a/package/sofia-sip/Config.in b/package/sofia-sip/Config.in
index 2ad1940833..37961273f3 100644
--- a/package/sofia-sip/Config.in
+++ b/package/sofia-sip/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_SOFIA_SIP
 	bool "sofia-sip"
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	help
 	  Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP User-Agent library,
 	  compliant with the IETF RFC3261 specification (see the
diff --git a/package/sofia-sip/sofia-sip.mk b/package/sofia-sip/sofia-sip.mk
index 1d47b43fe8..b8679f6961 100644
--- a/package/sofia-sip/sofia-sip.mk
+++ b/package/sofia-sip/sofia-sip.mk
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ SOFIA_SIP_SITE = $(call github,freeswitch,sofia-sip,v$(SOFIA_SIP_VERSION))
 SOFIA_SIP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # Fetched from github, no pre-generated configure script provided
 SOFIA_SIP_AUTORECONF = YES
-SOFIA_SIP_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
+SOFIA_SIP_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf openssl
 SOFIA_SIP_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
 SOFIA_SIP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYRIGHTS
 SOFIA_SIP_CPE_ID_VENDOR = signalwire
-SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS = --with-doxygen=no
+SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS = \
+	--with-doxygen=no \
+	--enable-nth \
+	--with-openssl=pkg-config
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2),y)
 SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS += --with-glib
@@ -22,15 +25,4 @@ else
 SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS += --without-glib
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
-SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS += \
-	--enable-nth \
-	--with-openssl=pkg-config
-SOFIA_SIP_DEPENDENCIES += openssl
-else
-SOFIA_SIP_CONF_OPTS += \
-	--disable-nth \
-	--without-openssl
-endif
-
 $(eval $(autotools-package))