diff --git a/package/daq3/Config.in b/package/daq3/Config.in
index ad7d55db5b..b53e5508fd 100644
--- a/package/daq3/Config.in
+++ b/package/daq3/Config.in
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_DAQ3
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_DAQ
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn.h
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	help
 	  DAQ is a Data Acquisition library for packet I/O from the
 	  Snort project.
 
 	  https://www.snort.org
 
-comment "daq3 needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, gcc >= 4.9"
+comment "daq3 needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, gcc >= 4.9, threads"
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_DAQ
-	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 \
+		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/snort3/Config.in b/package/snort3/Config.in
index 75923c3c20..dcc29b820a 100644
--- a/package/snort3/Config.in
+++ b/package/snort3/Config.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SNORT3
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # daq3
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # C++11
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # hwloc
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # daq3, hwloc
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DAQ3
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_FLEX