diff --git a/srcpkgs/justbuild/template b/srcpkgs/justbuild/template
index 59bd2bed1bf..d13945a3d7e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/justbuild/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/justbuild/template
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ revision=1
 create_wrksrc=yes
 hostmakedepends="jo pandoc pkg-config python3 tar unzip wget"
 makedepends="abseil-cpp-devel c-ares-devel catch2 fmt-devel grpc-devel json-c++
- libarchive-devel libcurl-devel libgit2-devel openssl-devel re2-devel
- libexecinfo-devel"
+ libarchive-devel libcurl-devel libgit2-devel openssl-devel re2-devel"
 depends="python3"
 short_desc="Generic build system supporting multi-repository builds"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
@@ -18,6 +17,10 @@ checksum=6a9c8c9793e9f1ad9f57ac81856c8263929a41a7346d01a4a57df2bb1b33db4e
 conflicts="just>=0"
 nocross="not supported by bootstrapping"
 
+case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+	*-musl) makedepends+=" libexecinfo-devel"
+esac
+
 CFLAGS="-Wno-error -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
 CXXFLAGS="-Wno-error -Wno-deprecated-declarations"