diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/run-ptest
index d23f0bf6d7..f67a95874f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/run-ptest
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 cd test
-for i in `grep -vE "@|^$|#|Gt-dummy" Maketests |awk -F: '{print $1}'`; \
-  do LC_ALL=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} LANG=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} srcdir=`pwd` AWK=gawk CMP=cmp \
-  make -f Maketests $i >$i.tmp 2>&1; \
-  grep -q "Error" $i.tmp; \
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "FAIL: $i"; \
-  else echo "PASS: $i"; rm -f $i.tmp; fi; \
+for i in `grep -E "^[a-z0-9_-]*:$" Maketests |awk -F: '{print $1}'`; do
+  #LC_ALL=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} LANG=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} 
+  srcdir=`pwd` AWKPROG=gawk AWK=gawk CMP=cmp make -f Maketests $i >$i.tmp 2>&1
+  if [ -e _$i ]; then
+    cat _$i
+    grep -q "support not compiled in" _$i
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+      echo "SKIP: $i"
+      continue
+    fi
+  fi
+  grep -q "Error" $i.tmp
+  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "FAIL: $i"
+  else
+    echo "PASS: $i"
+    rm -f $i.tmp
+  fi
 done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.0.0.bb
index b1e1b212a3..578901355c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.0.0.bb
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ inherit ptest
 
 do_install_ptest() {
 	mkdir ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test
+	ln -s ${bindir}/gawk ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/gawk
 	for i in `grep -vE "@|^$|#|Gt-dummy" ${S}/test/Maketests |awk -F: '{print $1}'` Maketests inclib.awk; \
 	  do cp ${S}/test/$i* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test; \
 	done
@@ -47,4 +48,6 @@ do_install_ptest() {
 	    -e 's|#!${base_bindir}/awk|#!${bindir}/awk|g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/*.awk
 }
 
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"