diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 9db61b785f3..5a41cd17dc6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gdbtk --disable-x --disable-werror \
                 --with-libgmp-prefix=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR} \
 "
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'debuginfod', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'debuginfod', d)} python"
 # Use --without-system-readline to compile with readline 5.
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-system-readline,--without-system-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python3,python3 python3-codecs"