diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index 843b6bd29b..878dd107de 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libmount \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'tests', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libmount] = "-Dlibmount=enabled,-Dlibmount=disabled,util-linux"
 PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "-Dman=true, -Dman=false, libxslt-native xmlto-native"
-# libelf is auto-detected without a configuration option
-PACKAGECONFIG[libelf] = ",,elfutils"
+PACKAGECONFIG[libelf] = "-Dlibelf=enabled,-Dlibelf=disabled,elfutils"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tests] = "-Dinstalled_tests=true,-Dinstalled_tests=false,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "-Dselinux=enabled,-Dselinux=disabled,libselinux"