diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
index f6b09ac987..de45079603 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.16.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 require eglibc_${PV}.bb
 require eglibc-initial.inc
 
+DEPENDS += "kconfig-frontends-native"
+
 # main eglibc recipes muck with TARGET_CPPFLAGS to point into
 # final target sysroot but we
 # are not there when building eglibc-initial