diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
index 3d652da6e5..d7a0fc616d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ do_install_ptest:append:libc-musl() {
 	done
 }
 
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make locale-base-en-us"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make locale-base-en-us coreutils"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " locale-base-en-us.iso-8859-1"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-musl = " musl-locales"