diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-aspeed_2016.07.inc b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-aspeed_2016.07.inc
index e92ba87..16a2e9c 100644
--- a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-aspeed_2016.07.inc
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common-aspeed_2016.07.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/openbmc/u-boot"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
+DEPENDS += "flex-native bison-native"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Licenses/README;md5=a2c678cfd4a4d97135585cad908541c6"
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-aspeed_2016.07.bb b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-aspeed_2016.07.bb
index 713133c..e9f724d 100644
--- a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-aspeed_2016.07.bb
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-aspeed_2016.07.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 SRC_URI += "file://alt_fw_env.config"
 
 SUMMARY = "U-Boot bootloader fw_printenv/setenv utilities"
-DEPENDS = "mtd-utils"
+DEPENDS += "mtd-utils"
 
 PROVIDES += "u-boot-fw-utils"