diff --git a/package/sudo/sudo.mk b/package/sudo/sudo.mk
index bb0a2b5e69..7f0b132500 100644
--- a/package/sudo/sudo.mk
+++ b/package/sudo/sudo.mk
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENLDAP),y)
 SUDO_DEPENDENCIES += openldap
 SUDO_CONF_OPTS += --with-ldap
+# If we are building sudo statically and openldap was linked with openssl, then
+# when we link sudo with openldap we need to specify the openssl libs, otherwise
+# it will fail with "undefined reference" errors.
+ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS)$(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),yy)
+SUDO_DEPENDENCIES += host-pkgconf
+SUDO_CONF_ENV = LIBS="`$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY) --libs libssl libcrypto`"
+endif
 else
 SUDO_CONF_OPTS += --without-ldap
 endif