diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 077d0dae29..5291a88f85 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2019-04-24  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+	[BZ #18465]
+	* malloc/Makefile (others): Add memusagestat.
+	($(objpfx)memusagestat): Delete rule.
+	(LDLIBS-memusagestat): New variable.
+
 2019-04-09  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@redhat.com>
 	    Kwok Cheung Yeung  <kcy@codesourcery.com>
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 117646df7b..07e099b5ec 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Major new features:
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [16573] malloc: Set and reset all hooks for tracing
+  [18465] memusagestat: use local glibc when linking
   [24155] x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
   [24164] Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm
   [24161] __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
diff --git a/malloc/Makefile b/malloc/Makefile
index ab2eed09c6..aadf602dfd 100644
--- a/malloc/Makefile
+++ b/malloc/Makefile
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ ifneq ($(cross-compiling),yes)
 # If the gd library is available we build the `memusagestat' program.
 ifneq ($(LIBGD),no)
 others: $(objpfx)memusage
+others += memusagestat
 install-bin = memusagestat
 install-bin-script += memusage
 generated += memusagestat memusage
@@ -154,8 +155,7 @@ cpp-srcs-left := $(memusagestat-modules)
 lib := memusagestat
 include $(patsubst %,$(..)libof-iterator.mk,$(cpp-srcs-left))
 
-$(objpfx)memusagestat: $(memusagestat-modules:%=$(objpfx)%.o)
-	$(LINK.o) -o $@ $^ $(libgd-LDFLAGS) -lgd -lpng -lz -lm
+LDLIBS-memusagestat = $(libgd-LDFLAGS) -lgd -lpng -lz -lm
 
 ifeq ($(run-built-tests),yes)
 ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))