diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index e3af5c21c0..ef5d75c450 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-target += "bash"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "bash make"
 
 require qemu-targets.inc
-inherit autotools ptest
+inherit autotools pkgconfig ptest
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
 # QEMU_TARGETS is overridable variable