diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
index e85c7044a0..7bae0e9554 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
@@ -78,3 +78,9 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 }
 
 GLIBC_ADDONS ?= "nptl,libidn"
+
+# Enable backtrace from abort()
+do_configure_append_arm () {
+	echo "CFLAGS-abort.c = -fasynchronous-unwind-tables" >> ${B}/configparms
+	echo "CFLAGS-raise.c = -fasynchronous-unwind-tables" >> ${B}/configparms
+}