diff --git a/package/wget/wget.mk b/package/wget/wget.mk
index 9cda76b6a2..c9efc03302 100644
--- a/package/wget/wget.mk
+++ b/package/wget/wget.mk
@@ -17,26 +17,17 @@ WGET_DEPENDENCIES += busybox
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS),y)
-WGET_CONF_OPTS += \
-	--with-ssl=gnutls \
-	--with-libgnutls-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)
+WGET_CONF_OPTS += --with-ssl=gnutls
 WGET_DEPENDENCIES += gnutls
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
-WGET_CONF_OPTS += --with-ssl=openssl --with-libssl-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)
+else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
+WGET_CONF_OPTS += --with-ssl=openssl
 WGET_DEPENDENCIES += openssl
+else
+WGET_CONF_OPTS += --without-ssl
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID),y)
 WGET_DEPENDENCIES += util-linux
 endif
 
-# --with-ssl is default
-ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS),y)
-ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
-WGET_CONF_OPTS += --without-ssl
-endif
-endif
-
 $(eval $(autotools-package))