diff --git a/textproc/ruby-nokogiri/Makefile b/textproc/ruby-nokogiri/Makefile
index 0306f5e4b05b..41fe36ee4173 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-nokogiri/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/ruby-nokogiri/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.82 2023/08/12 08:43:14 tsutsui Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.83 2023/08/21 18:38:16 schmonz Exp $
 
 DISTNAME=	nokogiri-1.15.4
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ RUBYGEM_OPTIONS+=	--format-executable
 OVERRIDE_GEMSPEC+=	:files ports/archives/libxml2-2.11.5.tar.gz= \
 			ports/archives/libxslt-1.1.38.tar.gz=
 
+BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM.Darwin+=	rm:-Wl,--no-as-needed
+
 # XXX: work around bug in bootstrap-mk-files, remove when fixed
 MAKE_ENV.SunOS+=	ARFLAGS=rcv