diff --git a/packages/gdbm/build.sh b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
index d10109947..21c14edf9 100644
--- a/packages/gdbm/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library of database functions that use extensible hashing"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.18.1
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=86e613527e5dba544e73208f42b78b7c022d4fa5a6d5498bf18c8d6f745b91dc
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="readline"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="gdbm-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="gdbm-dev"
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-readline --enable-libgdbm-compat"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-libgdbm-compat"