diff --git a/chat/xchat2/Makefile b/chat/xchat2/Makefile
index 953f9056a98d..39f27ba69d67 100644
--- a/chat/xchat2/Makefile
+++ b/chat/xchat2/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 2003/10/03 08:09:20 xtraeme Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.16 2003/10/11 11:08:36 grant Exp $
 #
 
 DISTNAME=	xchat-2.0.5
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-tcl=no
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--disable-perl
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--disable-python
 
+LDFLAGS.IRIX+=		-lX11
+
 .include "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk"
 
 BUILD_DEFS+=            USE_INET6 USE_SOCKS XCHAT_USE_SSL