diff --git a/package/asterisk/Config.in b/package/asterisk/Config.in
index b55bc0174d..c52456f8fc 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/Config.in
+++ b/package/asterisk/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ASTERISK
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn.h
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libedit
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libedit
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JANSSON
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
@@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ASTERISK
 
 	  http://www.asterisk.org/
 
-comment "asterisk needs a glibc or uClibc toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, wchar"
+comment "asterisk needs a glibc or uClibc toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, threads, wchar"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP \
-		|| BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
+		|| BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS \
+		|| !BR2_USE_WCHAR