diff --git a/package/sysdig/Config.in b/package/sysdig/Config.in
index ee53b4fa20..0ca468c396 100644
--- a/package/sysdig/Config.in
+++ b/package/sysdig/Config.in
@@ -2,18 +2,17 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSDIG
 	bool "sysdig"
 	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # libjson
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # jq
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # luajit, elfutils
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # elfutils
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # elfutils
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC # elfutils
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUAINTERPRETER_ABI_VERSION_5_1
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JQ
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JSONCPP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBB64
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
@@ -26,9 +25,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSDIG
 
 	  https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki
 
-comment "sysdig needs a glibc or uclibc toolchain w/ C++, threads, gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library and a Linux kernel to be built"
+comment "sysdig needs a glibc or uclibc toolchain w/ C++, threads, gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library, a Linux kernel, and luajit or lua 5.1 to be built"
 	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP \
 		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS \
 		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS \
-		|| !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC)
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS
+		|| !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) \
+	    || !BR2_PACKAGE_LUAINTERPRETER_ABI_VERSION_5_1
diff --git a/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk b/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
index c604032cf4..9c8b818181 100644
--- a/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
+++ b/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
@@ -9,9 +9,20 @@ SYSDIG_SITE = $(call github,draios,sysdig,$(SYSDIG_VERSION))
 SYSDIG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 SYSDIG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 SYSDIG_CONF_OPTS = -DENABLE_DKMS=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_DEPS=OFF
-SYSDIG_DEPENDENCIES = zlib luajit jsoncpp libcurl ncurses openssl jq libb64 elfutils
 SYSDIG_SUPPORTS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD = NO
 
+SYSDIG_DEPENDENCIES = \
+	elfutils \
+	jq \
+	jsoncpp \
+	libb64 \
+	libcurl \
+	luainterpreter \
+	ncurses \
+	openssl \
+	zlib \
+
+
 # sysdig creates the module Makefile from a template, which contains a
 # single place-holder, KBUILD_FLAGS, wich is only replaced with two
 # things: