diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2.28/desktop/libgweather/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2.28/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
index 2b76585287a..9ed8eb38d14 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2.28/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2.28/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, gtk, intltool, GConf, libsoup}:
 
+assert stdenv ? glibc;
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "libgweather-2.28.0";
   src = fetchurl {