diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc
index 3160708113e..a2173bee04b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ CVE_STATUS[CVE-2023-4001]  = "not-applicable-platform: Applies only to RHEL/Fedo
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-1048]  = "not-applicable-platform: Applies only to RHEL/Fedora"
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-2312]  = "not-applicable-platform: Applies only to Ubuntu"
 
-DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native gettext-native"
+DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native gettext-native gawk-replacement-native"
 
 GRUB_COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64.*|i.86.*|arm.*|aarch64.*|riscv.*)-(linux.*|freebsd.*)'
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "${GRUB_COMPATIBLE_HOST}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
index 225d0539a01..60e3daaf326 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require glibc-common.inc
 require glibc-ld.inc
 
-DEPENDS = "virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}gcc virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}binutils libgcc-initial linux-libc-headers"
+DEPENDS = "virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}gcc virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}binutils libgcc-initial linux-libc-headers gawk-replacement-native"
 
 PROVIDES = "virtual/libc"
 PROVIDES += "virtual/libintl virtual/libiconv"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
index ac9d8500d60..a05ec3b34bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.0.bb
@@ -34,13 +34,21 @@ ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "awk"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[awk] = "${bindir}/gawk"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 
-do_install:append() {
+target_tweaks() {
 	# remove the link since we don't package it
 	rm ${D}${bindir}/awk
 	# Strip non-reproducible build flags (containing build paths)
 	sed -i -e 's|^CC.*|CC=""|g' -e 's|^CFLAGS.*|CFLAGS=""|g' ${D}${bindir}/gawkbug
 }
 
+do_install:append:class-target() {
+	target_tweaks
+}
+
+do_install:append:class-nativesdk() {
+	target_tweaks
+}
+
 inherit ptest
 
 do_install_ptest() {
@@ -87,4 +95,5 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make locale-base-en-us coreutils"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " locale-base-en-us.iso-8859-1"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-musl = " musl-locales"
 
+PROVIDES:append:class-native = " gawk-replacement-native"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"