diff --git a/package/php/php.mk b/package/php/php.mk
index fd428e192a..b6b17a1562 100644
--- a/package/php/php.mk
+++ b/package/php/php.mk
@@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ endef
 PHP_POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += PHP_DISABLE_VALGRIND
 
 ### Use external PCRE if it's available
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2),y)
 PHP_CONF_OPTS += --with-pcre-regex=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
-PHP_DEPENDENCIES += pcre
+PHP_DEPENDENCIES += pcre2
 else
 # The bundled pcre library is not configurable through ./configure options,
 # and by default is configured to be thread-safe, so it wants pthreads. So