diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wxwidgets/wxwidgets_3.1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wxwidgets/wxwidgets_3.1.5.bb
index f9349b02ab..b10742eac6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wxwidgets/wxwidgets_3.1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wxwidgets/wxwidgets_3.1.5.bb
@@ -10,10 +10,7 @@ LICENSE = "WXwindows"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://docs/licence.txt;md5=981f50a934828620b08f44d75db557c6"
 
 inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'qt', 'cmake_qt5', 'cmake', d)}
-inherit features_check lib_package binconfig pkgconfig
-
-# All toolkit-configs except 'no_gui' require x11 explicitly (see toolkit.cmake)
-REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'no_gui', '', 'x11', d)}"
+inherit lib_package binconfig pkgconfig
 
 DEPENDS += " \
     jpeg \
@@ -46,7 +43,11 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:libc-musl = " \
     -DHAVE_LOCALE_T=OFF \
 "
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ?= "gtk ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', d)}"
+# All toolkit-configs except 'no_gui' require x11 explicitly (see toolkit.cmake)
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', 'no_gui', d)} \
+    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', d)} \
+"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG:remove:class-native = "opengl"
 
 # Note on toolkit-PACKAGECONFIGs: select exactly one of 'no_gui' / 'gtk' / 'qt'