diff --git a/package/grpc/Config.in b/package/grpc/Config.in
index 0270b38c35..6151f4b3d1 100644
--- a/package/grpc/Config.in
+++ b/package/grpc/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GRPC
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # protobuf, re2
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF_ARCH_SUPPORTS # protobuf
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # protobuf, re2
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # protobuf, re2, libabseil-cpp
+	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # host-libabseil-cpp
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # protobuf, libabseil-cpp
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
@@ -19,9 +20,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GRPC
 
 	  http://github.com/grpc/grpc
 
-comment "grpc needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library, gcc >= 4.8"
+comment "grpc needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library, gcc >= 4.9"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS \
-		|| BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
+		|| BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 \
+		|| !BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF_ARCH_SUPPORTS
diff --git a/package/libabseil-cpp/Config.in b/package/libabseil-cpp/Config.in
index 8018e7b264..222e3a092a 100644
--- a/package/libabseil-cpp/Config.in
+++ b/package/libabseil-cpp/Config.in
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP
 	bool "libabseil-cpp"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # uses dlfcn.h
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP
 
 	  https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp
 
-comment "libabseil-cpp needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library"
+comment "libabseil-cpp needs a toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.9, C++, threads, dynamic library"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBABSEIL_CPP_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+		BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9