diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index d1f25ef8f2..377c6a323d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS:mingw32 = ""
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-codegen += "${CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS}"
 
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "${PN}-utils"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "${PN}-utils pkgconfig"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
             coreutils \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.14.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.14.3.bb
index e475c6e042..a85ec3a9bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.14.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.14.3.bb
@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-pydoc += "${PN}-io"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-tests:append:class-target = " ${MLPREFIX}bash"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-tests:append:class-nativesdk = " ${MLPREFIX}bash"
 
+RDEPENDS:{PN}-dev += "pkgconfig"
+
 # Python's tests contain large numbers of files we don't need in the recipe sysroots
 SYSROOT_PREPROCESS_FUNCS += " py3_sysroot_cleanup"
 py3_sysroot_cleanup () {
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.3.2.bb
index a405cc2692..1a6c9136e9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.3.2.bb
@@ -67,4 +67,6 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "acl \
                         perl-module-posix \
                        "
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = "pkgconfig"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"