diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.98.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.98.bb
index 60df6f7..b9aae0f 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.98.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.98.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 DEPENDS = "tcl tk gperf-native bzip2 xz pango zlib gtk+ gdk-pixbuf glib-2.0"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "tk-lib"
 
+# depends on gtk+ which has this restriction
+inherit distro_features_check
+ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES = "${GTK2DISTROFEATURES}"
+
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-tcl=${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS} --with-tk=${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}"
 
 FILES_${PN} = "${bindir} ${datadir}"