diff --git a/package/libpsl/Config.in b/package/libpsl/Config.in
index dd484799e7..a4cbce6b43 100644
--- a/package/libpsl/Config.in
+++ b/package/libpsl/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPSL
 	bool "libpsl"
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libunistring, icu
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBIDN2 if !BR2_PACKAGE_ICU && !BR2_PACKAGE_LIBIDN
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUNISTRING if !BR2_PACKAGE_ICU
 	help
 	  C library to handle the Public Suffix List of TLDs.
 
 	  https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl
+
+comment "libpsl needs a toolchain w/ wchar"
+	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR
diff --git a/package/libsoup/Config.in b/package/libsoup/Config.in
index 47adfb33f2..0c0454c7c2 100644
--- a/package/libsoup/Config.in
+++ b/package/libsoup/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSOUP
 	bool "libsoup"
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # glib2 and gnutls
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # glib2, gnutls and libpsl
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # glib2
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # glib2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2