diff --git a/package/go-bootstrap/go-bootstrap.mk b/package/go-bootstrap/go-bootstrap.mk
index e404cb6966..fd23628941 100644
--- a/package/go-bootstrap/go-bootstrap.mk
+++ b/package/go-bootstrap/go-bootstrap.mk
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ GO_BOOTSTRAP_SOURCE = go$(GO_BOOTSTRAP_VERSION).src.tar.gz
 GO_BOOTSTRAP_LICENSE = BSD-3c
 GO_BOOTSTRAP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 
+# To build programs that need cgo support the toolchain needs to be
+# available, so the toolchain is not needed to build host-go-bootstrap
+# itself, but needed by other packages that depend on
+# host-go-bootstrap.
+HOST_GO_BOOTSTRAP_DEPENDENCIES = toolchain
+
 HOST_GO_BOOTSTRAP_ROOT = $(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib/go-$(GO_BOOTSTRAP_VERSION)
 
 HOST_GO_BOOTSTRAP_MAKE_ENV = \