diff --git a/package/monit/monit-0001-no-force-static.patch b/package/monit/monit-0001-no-force-static.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..edb619b54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/monit/monit-0001-no-force-static.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Do not force building a statically-linked binary
+
+Statically-linked binary do not work well with glibc, because it
+still dlopen()s the NSS libraries.
+
+Reported-by: Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp@gmx.net>
+Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
+
+diff -durN monit-5.7.orig/Makefile.am monit-5.7/Makefile.am
+--- monit-5.7.orig/Makefile.am	2014-02-20 09:00:42.000000000 +0100
++++ monit-5.7/Makefile.am	2014-09-05 12:49:43.711104001 +0200
+@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
+ 		  src/process/sysdep_@ARCH@.c
+  
+ monit_LDADD 	= libmonit/libmonit.la
+-monit_LDFLAGS 	= -static $(EXTLDFLAGS)
++monit_LDFLAGS 	= $(EXTLDFLAGS)
+ 
+ man_MANS 	= monit.1
+ 
diff --git a/package/monit/monit.mk b/package/monit/monit.mk
index 25bb5a2a6..fa3a6d877 100644
--- a/package/monit/monit.mk
+++ b/package/monit/monit.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ MONIT_VERSION = 5.7
 MONIT_SITE = http://mmonit.com/monit/dist
 MONIT_LICENSE = AGPLv3 with OpenSSL exception
 MONIT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+#
+# Touching Makefile.am:
+MONIT_AUTORECONF = YES
+
+# Missing m4/ directory in the source tree
+define MONIT_M4
+	mkdir $(@D)/m4
+endef
+MONIT_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += MONIT_M4
 
 MONIT_CONF_ENV = \
 	libmonit_cv_setjmp_available=yes \