diff --git a/dev-java/openjdk-bin/openjdk-bin-17_p35.ebuild b/dev-java/openjdk-bin/openjdk-bin-17_p35.ebuild
index 29dfd60186eb5..c931ac0e60225 100644
--- a/dev-java/openjdk-bin/openjdk-bin-17_p35.ebuild
+++ b/dev-java/openjdk-bin/openjdk-bin-17_p35.ebuild
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 		media-libs/fontconfig:1.0
 		media-libs/freetype:2
 		media-libs/harfbuzz
-		>=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5:*
+		elibc_glibc? ( >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5:* )
 		sys-libs/zlib
 		alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib )
 		cups? ( net-print/cups )