diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.1.bb
index bd72fbf280..724b561c93 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.1.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline mpfr"
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[mpfr] = "--with-mpfr,--without-mpfr, mpfr"