diff --git a/repos/ports/recipes/src/bash/used_apis b/repos/ports/recipes/src/bash/used_apis
index 737e3c26a5..6abd7b790c 100644
--- a/repos/ports/recipes/src/bash/used_apis
+++ b/repos/ports/recipes/src/bash/used_apis
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+base
 libc
 noux
 posix
diff --git a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/bash/target.mk b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/bash/target.mk
index a0506d6758..d0a23ff925 100644
--- a/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/bash/target.mk
+++ b/repos/ports/src/noux-pkg/bash/target.mk
@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ CFLAGS += -DNO_MAIN_ENV_ARG=1
 # Prevent interactions with nonexisting tty driver
 CFLAGS += -DNO_TTY_DRIVER
 
+LIBS += ld
+
 include $(call select_from_repositories,mk/noux.mk)