diff --git a/package/ecryptfs-utils/Config.in b/package/ecryptfs-utils/Config.in
index 076e1d4d7a..7999ea57f8 100644
--- a/package/ecryptfs-utils/Config.in
+++ b/package/ecryptfs-utils/Config.in
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ECRYPTFS_UTILS
 	bool "ecryptfs-utils"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_KEYUTILS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNSS
+	# runtime dependency only, some scripts are using the
+	# 'gettext' program to get translations
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # gettext
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # keyutils
 	depends on !BR2_avr32 && !BR2_microblaze # keyutils
 	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE # libnss
@@ -23,8 +27,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ECRYPTFS_UTILS
 
 	  http://ecryptfs.org
 
-comment "ecryptfs-utils needs a toolchain w/ largefile, threads"
+comment "ecryptfs-utils needs a toolchain w/ largefile, threads, wchar"
 	depends on !BR2_avr32 && !BR2_microblaze
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNSPR_ARCH_SUPPORT
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-	depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR