diff --git a/package/network-manager/Config.in b/package/network-manager/Config.in
index 1257e08e6f..e6a3f5f04f 100644
--- a/package/network-manager/Config.in
+++ b/package/network-manager/Config.in
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NETWORK_MANAGER
 	# Tested with 3.2, but may even work with earlier versions
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC # CLOCK_BOOTTIME, IPTOS_CLASS_*
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libglib2
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGCRYPT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID
@@ -60,8 +63,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NETWORK_MANAGER_OVS
 
 endif
 
-comment "NetworkManager needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ headers >= 3.2, dynamic library"
+comment "NetworkManager needs udev /dev management and a glibc toolchain w/ headers >= 3.2, dynamic library, wchar, threads"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_2 || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || \
+		!BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/network-manager/network-manager.mk b/package/network-manager/network-manager.mk
index e913d69927..7de2c220fe 100644
--- a/package/network-manager/network-manager.mk
+++ b/package/network-manager/network-manager.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ NETWORK_MANAGER_VERSION = $(NETWORK_MANAGER_VERSION_MAJOR).4
 NETWORK_MANAGER_SOURCE = NetworkManager-$(NETWORK_MANAGER_VERSION).tar.xz
 NETWORK_MANAGER_SITE = https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager/$(NETWORK_MANAGER_VERSION_MAJOR)
 NETWORK_MANAGER_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-NETWORK_MANAGER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf udev gnutls \
+NETWORK_MANAGER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf udev gnutls libglib2 \
 	libgcrypt wireless_tools util-linux host-intltool readline libndp
 # Even though the COPYING file only contains the GPL-2.0 text, many
 # parts of network-manager are under LGPL-2.0. See the "Legal" section