diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 0fe7b4e5b0..f3ab3544da 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "GNU debugger"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 DESCRIPTION = "GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on inside another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed."
 SECTION = "devel"
-DEPENDS = "expat zlib ncurses virtual/libiconv ${LTTNGUST} bison-native"
+DEPENDS = "expat gmp zlib ncurses virtual/libiconv ${LTTNGUST} bison-native"
 
 LTTNGUST = "lttng-ust"
 LTTNGUST:arc = ""
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gdbtk --disable-x --disable-werror \
                 --disable-gas --disable-binutils \
                 --disable-ld --disable-gold \
                 --disable-gprof \
+                --with-libgmp-prefix=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR} \
 "
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'debuginfod', d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
index dfacba29a0..836c51a3de 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SUMMARY = "GNU debugger (cross-canadian gdb for ${TARGET_ARCH} target)"
 PN = "gdb-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
 BPN = "gdb"
 
-DEPENDS = "nativesdk-ncurses nativesdk-expat nativesdk-gettext \
+DEPENDS = "nativesdk-ncurses nativesdk-expat nativesdk-gettext nativesdk-gmp \
            virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}gcc-crosssdk virtual/${HOST_PREFIX}binutils-crosssdk virtual/nativesdk-libc"
 
 GDBPROPREFIX = "--program-prefix='${TARGET_PREFIX}'"