diff --git a/network/ldapvi/ldapvi.conf b/network/ldapvi/ldapvi.conf
index d625abbe5..7952b857c 100644
--- a/network/ldapvi/ldapvi.conf
+++ b/network/ldapvi/ldapvi.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../ldapvi/ldapvi.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2011 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-if pkginstalled gnutls; then
-	# openssl is the default, but we prefer gnutls if possible
-	var_append confopt ' ' --with-libcrypto=gnutls
-fi
+# openssl is the default, but we prefer to set it explicitely because
+# it fails to build against recent versions of gnutls
+pkgprefix -t openssl
+var_append confopt ' ' --with-libcrypto=openssl
 
 pkgprefix -t openldap
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' "-L ${root}$( pkgprefix libdir openldap )"
-