diff --git a/package/connman/Config.in b/package/connman/Config.in
index c9bc94f06e..2fcb6c19c3 100644
--- a/package/connman/Config.in
+++ b/package/connman/Config.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CONNMAN
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_IPTABLES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS
 	depends on !(BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_0_9_31 || BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_0_9_32)
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2 and gnutls
 	depends on BR2_INET_IPV6
 	help
 	  The Connection Manager (ConnMan) project provides a daemon for
diff --git a/package/gnutls/Config.in b/package/gnutls/Config.in
index cedf120ee7..556caea2d2 100644
--- a/package/gnutls/Config.in
+++ b/package/gnutls/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS
 	bool "gnutls"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGCRYPT
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	help
 	  GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL
 	  and TLS protocols and technologies around them.
 
 	  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/gnutls.html
+
+comment "gnutls requires a toolchain with WCHAR support"
+	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR
diff --git a/package/libsoup/Config.in b/package/libsoup/Config.in
index eee6adecc3..f40625d487 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
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # glib2 and gnutls
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT if BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT
diff --git a/package/network-manager/Config.in b/package/network-manager/Config.in
index fb0c0e9eed..a120d01ef3 100644
--- a/package/network-manager/Config.in
+++ b/package/network-manager/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NETWORK_MANAGER
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
 	depends on BR2_INET_IPV6
 	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE # acl
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2 and gnutls
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_GLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV_ALL_EXTRAS