diff --git a/sysutils/eggdbus/distinfo b/sysutils/eggdbus/distinfo
index 61adeaf6790e..b14f5004039a 100644
--- a/sysutils/eggdbus/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/eggdbus/distinfo
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.2 2010/07/05 08:58:56 dsainty Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.3 2010/12/15 02:24:23 chuck Exp $
 
 SHA1 (eggdbus-0.6.tar.bz2) = 9f47d1225aafdcc5c59d177ec4c2b52d6f003ce8
 RMD160 (eggdbus-0.6.tar.bz2) = a1fa28199059e7deb551b755a8a3853aa02ae0b7
 Size (eggdbus-0.6.tar.bz2) = 163804 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-aa) = 4c803b9598f760b88b7a6b9ca53acc64377ed200
+SHA1 (patch-ab) = 5cf2948d7d1f9c06168dc92397fe1bf69279a0c1
diff --git a/sysutils/eggdbus/patches/patch-ab b/sysutils/eggdbus/patches/patch-ab
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ac85158b731d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/eggdbus/patches/patch-ab
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1 2010/12/15 02:24:23 chuck Exp $
+
+--- configure.ac.orig	2010-12-14 16:04:28.000000000 -0500
++++ configure.ac	2010-12-14 16:06:27.000000000 -0500
+@@ -120,7 +120,13 @@
+ AC_SUBST(DBUS_GLIB_LIBS)
+ 
+ if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then
+-  LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed $LDFLAGS"
++  case "x$host_os" in 
++    xdarwin* )
++     ;;
++    * )
++     LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed $LDFLAGS"
++     ;;
++  esac
+ fi
+ 
+ AC_OUTPUT([