diff --git a/package/xz/Config.in b/package/xz/Config.in
index 50116f2995..55beb42911 100644
--- a/package/xz/Config.in
+++ b/package/xz/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_XZ
 	bool "xz-utils"
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	help
 	  XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
 	  compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful
@@ -12,3 +13,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_XZ
 	  package.
 
 	  http://tukaani.org/xz/
+
+comment "xz-utils needs a toolchain w/ threads"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS