diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
index 0c90f8d252..1f9fea25d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.6.1.bb
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so"
 inherit ptest
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 glibc-gconv-iso8859-2 glibc-gconv-utf-7"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "libgcc"
 
 do_compile_ptest() {
 	cd ${B}/test
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.6.5.bb b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.6.5.bb
index 432e4ed744..79879ff25f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.6.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.6.5.bb
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/apr.exp ${datadir}/build-1/*"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "bash"
 
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "libgcc"
+
 #for some reason, build/libtool.m4 handled by buildconf still be overwritten
 #when autoconf, so handle it again.
 do_configure_append() {