diff --git a/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.8.ebuild b/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.8.ebuild
index 9c62a78b5b9b7..ce9198c81c910 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.8.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.8.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://gnupg/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 MIT"
 SLOT="0/20" # subslot = soname major version
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="doc static-libs"
+IUSE="+asm doc static-libs"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.25[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.9.ebuild b/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.9.ebuild
index 0ab01c5a2c989..b9701d8197628 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.9.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.9.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( mirror://gnupg/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2.sig )"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 MIT"
 SLOT="0/20" # subslot = soname major version
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="doc static-libs"
+IUSE="+asm doc static-libs"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.25[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"