diff --git a/games/golly/Makefile b/games/golly/Makefile
index 209073dad408..ef32d9109fba 100644
--- a/games/golly/Makefile
+++ b/games/golly/Makefile
@@ -12,14 +12,17 @@ COMMENT=	Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 
-BROKEN_aarch64=		fails to configure: missing objdump
-
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lib python:2.7
 USE_GL=		gl glu
 USE_WX=		3.0+
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-wx-config=${WX_CONFIG:T}
+# Pretend objdump is available even if it is not e.g. on aarch64.
+# The Python shared library name is already looked up via
+# distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("LDLIBRARY") which is unlikely
+# to fail; objdump is never actually used.
+CONFIGURE_ARGS=	ac_cv_prog_OBJDUMP=/usr/bin/false \
+		--with-wx-config=${WX_CONFIG:T}
 CXXFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib