diff --git a/boot/uboot/uboot.mk b/boot/uboot/uboot.mk
index 03bd7ea743..6ef275e842 100644
--- a/boot/uboot/uboot.mk
+++ b/boot/uboot/uboot.mk
@@ -211,7 +211,15 @@ endif # BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_USE_DEFCONFIG
 
 UBOOT_KCONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES))
 UBOOT_KCONFIG_EDITORS = menuconfig xconfig gconfig nconfig
-UBOOT_KCONFIG_OPTS = $(UBOOT_MAKE_OPTS)
+
+# UBOOT_MAKE_OPTS overrides HOSTCC / HOSTLDFLAGS to allow the build to
+# find our host-openssl. However, this triggers a bug in the kconfig
+# build script that causes it to build with /usr/include/ncurses.h
+# (which is typically wchar) but link with
+# $(HOST_DIR)/lib/libncurses.so (which is not).  We don't actually
+# need any host-package for kconfig, so remove the HOSTCC/HOSTLDFLAGS
+# override again.
+UBOOT_KCONFIG_OPTS = $(UBOOT_MAKE_OPTS) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC)" HOSTLDFLAGS=""
 define UBOOT_HELP_CMDS
 	@echo '  uboot-menuconfig       - Run U-Boot menuconfig'
 	@echo '  uboot-savedefconfig    - Run U-Boot savedefconfig'