diff --git a/package/poppler/poppler.mk b/package/poppler/poppler.mk
index ebb918de03..ffa65f68ce 100644
--- a/package/poppler/poppler.mk
+++ b/package/poppler/poppler.mk
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ POPPLER_CONF_OPTS = \
 	-DENABLE_GTK_DOC=OFF
 
 # cmake older than 3.10 requires this to avoid try_run() in FindThreads
-POPPLER_CONF_OPTS += -DTHREADS_HAVE_PTHREAD_ARG=ON
+POPPLER_CONF_OPTS += -DTHREADS_PTHREAD_ARG=OFF
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
 POPPLER_CONF_OPTS += -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$(TARGET_CXXFLAGS) -latomic"