diff --git a/package/gdb/Config.in b/package/gdb/Config.in
index 0c6966ab35..809e02d076 100644
--- a/package/gdb/Config.in
+++ b/package/gdb/Config.in
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ comment "gdb/gdbserver needs a toolchain w/ threads, threads debug"
 	depends on !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_bfin
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG
 
-comment "gdb/gdbserver needs a toolchain w/ C++"
-	depends on BR2_arc
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB
 	bool "gdb"
 	# When the external toolchain gdbserver is copied to the
@@ -15,8 +11,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB
 		(!BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_DEBUGGER && !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY)
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG
 	depends on !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_bfin
-	# Since ARC gdb moved to 7.12 toolchain requires C++ support to build gdb.
-	depends on !BR2_arc || BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	help
 	  GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is
 	  going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or
diff --git a/package/gdb/gdb.mk b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
index ccf9e4968d..ea27d0c6eb 100644
--- a/package/gdb/gdb.mk
+++ b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ GDB_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--disable-werror \
 	--enable-static
 
+# When gdb is built as C++ application for ARC it segfaults at runtime
+# So we pass --disable-build-with-cxx config option to force gdb not to
+# be built as C++ app.
+ifeq ($(BR2_arc),y)
+GDB_CONF_OPTS += --disable-build-with-cxx
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_TUI),y)
 GDB_CONF_OPTS += --enable-tui
 else