diff --git a/main/lttng-ust/APKBUILD b/main/lttng-ust/APKBUILD
index a6233e245cc..a13c684041a 100644
--- a/main/lttng-ust/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/lttng-ust/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ arch="all"
 license="LGPL-2.1-only AND GPL-2.0-only AND MIT"
 depends_dev="userspace-rcu-dev>0.10"
 makedepends="$depends_dev util-linux-dev linux-headers python3 py3-setuptools"
-checkdepends="bash"
+checkdepends="bash gawk"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-dev $pkgname-tools::noarch py3-lttng:pyagent"
 source="https://lttng.org/files/lttng-ust/lttng-ust-$pkgver.tar.bz2"