diff --git a/package/cryptsetup/Config.in b/package/cryptsetup/Config.in
index 3ca23ba721..5cd4676eaa 100644
--- a/package/cryptsetup/Config.in
+++ b/package/cryptsetup/Config.in
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CRYPTSETUP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT if BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE
 	help
 	  This tool helps manipulate dm-crypt and luks partitions for
 	  on-disk encryption.
diff --git a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
index 787331c14a..5496583028 100644
--- a/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
+++ b/package/cryptsetup/cryptsetup.mk
@@ -9,14 +9,11 @@ CRYPTSETUP_VERSION = $(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR).5
 CRYPTSETUP_SOURCE = cryptsetup-$(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION).tar.xz
 CRYPTSETUP_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v$(CRYPTSETUP_VERSION_MAJOR)
 CRYPTSETUP_DEPENDENCIES = lvm2 popt util-linux host-pkgconf \
-	$(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext)
+	$(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
 CRYPTSETUP_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ (programs), LGPL-2.1+ (library)
 CRYPTSETUP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LGPL
 CRYPTSETUP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),y)
-CRYPTSETUP_CONF_ENV += LDFLAGS="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS) -lintl"
-endif
+CRYPTSETUP_CONF_ENV += LDFLAGS="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_NLS_LIBS)"
 
 # cryptsetup uses libgcrypt by default, but can be configured to use OpenSSL
 # or kernel crypto modules instead