--- gettext-runtime/intl/localename.c
+++ gettext-runtime/intl/localename.c
@@ -2607,7 +2607,7 @@
     locale_t thread_locale = uselocale (NULL);
     if (thread_locale != LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE)
       {
-#  if __GLIBC__ >= 2
+#  if __GLIBC__ >= 2 && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
         /* Work around an incorrect definition of the _NL_LOCALE_NAME macro in
            glibc < 2.12.
            See <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10968>.  */