diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.7.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.7.3.bb
index 6c22649710..79e7dc5998 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.7.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.7.3.bb
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ do_configure_prepend () {
 }
 
 FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/cmake"
+TOOLCHAIN = "gcc"