diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libexecinfo/libexecinfo_1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libexecinfo/libexecinfo_1.1.bb
index f79b1ab180..13a38ab499 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libexecinfo/libexecinfo_1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libexecinfo/libexecinfo_1.1.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8e9e81c554c1c5d735bc877448e92b91"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c9a21913e7fdac8ef6b33250b167aa1fc0a7b8a175145e26913a4c19d8a59b1f"
 
 CFLAGS += "-fno-omit-frame-pointer"
+CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE"
 
 do_install() {
     install -D -m 0744 ${S}/execinfo.h ${D}${includedir}/execinfo.h