diff --git a/package/ghostscript/ghostscript.mk b/package/ghostscript/ghostscript.mk
index 24a0c489a8..02cb35fcfc 100644
--- a/package/ghostscript/ghostscript.mk
+++ b/package/ghostscript/ghostscript.mk
@@ -83,4 +83,8 @@ else
 GHOSTSCRIPT_CONF_OPTS += --without-x
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),)
+GHOSTSCRIPT_CONF_OPTS += --without-tesseract
+endif
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))