diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 166ba8e..0d28ee4 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 SECTION = "devel"
-DEPENDS = "expat zlib ncurses readline ${LTTNGUST}"
+DEPENDS = "expat zlib ncurses ${LTTNGUST}"
 
 LTTNGUST = "lttng-ust"
 LTTNGUST_aarch64 = ""
@@ -22,16 +22,11 @@
 		file://COPYING.LIB;md5=9f604d8a4f8e74f4f5140845a21b6674 \
 		file://COPYING3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
 		file://COPYING3.LIB;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6"
+
 inherit autotools texinfo
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gdb/gdb-${PV}.tar.gz \
           "
-export CC_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CC}"
-export CXX_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CXX}"
-export CPP_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CPP}"
-export CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CFLAGS}"
-export CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}"
-export CPPFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CPPFLAGS}"
 
 B = "${WORKDIR}/build-${TARGET_SYS}"
 
@@ -40,13 +35,19 @@
 EXPAT = "--with-expat --with-libexpat-prefix=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gdbtk --disable-tui --disable-x --disable-werror \
-                --with-curses --disable-multilib --with-system-readline --disable-sim \
+                --with-curses --disable-multilib --disable-sim \
                 --without-lzma --without-guile \
                 ${GDBPROPREFIX} ${EXPAT} \
                 ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)} \
                 --disable-rpath \
                "
 
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline"
+# Use --without-system-readline to compile with readline 5.
+PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-system-readline,--without-system-readline,readline"
+PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python,python python-codecs"
+PACKAGECONFIG[babeltrace] = "--with-babeltrace,--without-babeltrace,babeltrace"
+
 GDBPROPREFIX = "--program-prefix=''"
 
 do_configure () {