diff --git a/package/clamav/Config.in b/package/clamav/Config.in
index 08f3e47461..990a818b5c 100644
--- a/package/clamav/Config.in
+++ b/package/clamav/Config.in
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CLAMAV
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlopen
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMSPACK
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTOOL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_MUSL_FTS if !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CLAMAV
 
 	  http://www.clamav.net
 
-comment "clamav needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar"
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP \
+comment "clamav needs a toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, threads, wchar"
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || BR2_STATIC_LIBS \
 		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
diff --git a/package/clamav/clamav.mk b/package/clamav/clamav.mk
index fc979a74aa..45d62943a0 100644
--- a/package/clamav/clamav.mk
+++ b/package/clamav/clamav.mk
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ CLAMAV_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-pkgconf \
 	libcurl \
 	libmspack \
-	libtool \
 	openssl \
 	zlib \
 	$(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
@@ -38,8 +37,6 @@ CLAMAV_CONF_ENV += LIBS="$(CLAMAV_LIBS)"
 
 CLAMAV_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--with-dbdir=/var/lib/clamav \
-	--with-ltdl-include=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include \
-	--with-ltdl-lib=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib \
 	--with-libcurl=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
 	--with-openssl=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
 	--with-system-libmspack=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \