diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_3.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_3.8.1.bb
index 184023e403..92cc966dbb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_3.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_3.8.1.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "364f3e2b77cd7dcde83fd7c45219c834e54b0c75e428b6f894a23d12dd
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "nettle-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)\.tar"
 
-inherit autotools ptest multilib_header
+inherit autotools ptest multilib_header lib_package
 
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=aclocal"
 
@@ -53,4 +53,6 @@ do_install_ptest() {
         sed -i -e 's|../examples/|./|g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/*-test
 }
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "${PN}-bin"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"