diff --git a/package/thrift/Config.in b/package/thrift/Config.in
index ac998014bc..23b99e5834 100644
--- a/package/thrift/Config.in
+++ b/package/thrift/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_THRIFT
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on !BR2_arc # atomic builtins
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC_INTRINSICS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBEVENT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_THRIFT
 
 	  http://thrift.apache.org/
 
-comment "thrift needs a toolchain w/ C++, largefile, wchar, threads"
+comment "thrift needs a toolchain w/ C++, largefile, wchar, threads, atomic intrinsics"
 	depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	depends on !BR2_arc
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC_INTRINSICS