diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
index 1f603223d3..f6f515cbf6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ DEPENDS = "nativesdk-ncurses nativesdk-expat nativesdk-gettext nativesdk-readlin
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "nativesdk-python-core nativesdk-python-lang nativesdk-python-re \
                    nativesdk-python-codecs nativesdk-python-netclient"
 
+GDBPROPREFIX = "--program-prefix='${TARGET_PREFIX}'"
+
 EXTRA_OECONF_append = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python"
 
 do_configure_prepend() {
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian_7.6.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian_7.6.bb
index a2194a18ef..3864435276 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian_7.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian_7.6.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 require gdb-common.inc
 require gdb-cross-canadian.inc
 require gdb-7.6.inc
-
-GDBPROPREFIX = "--program-prefix='${TARGET_PREFIX}'"