diff --git a/tools/gdb/mknative-gdb b/tools/gdb/mknative-gdb
index c860bcbfaf37..f2efbdcaf720 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/mknative-gdb
+++ b/tools/gdb/mknative-gdb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#	$NetBSD: mknative-gdb,v 1.14 2020/09/24 14:53:17 christos Exp $
+#	$NetBSD: mknative-gdb,v 1.15 2020/12/05 21:27:31 christos Exp $
 #
 # Shell script for generating all the constants needed for a native
 # platform build of src/external/gpl3/gdb
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ get_gdb_libgdb () {
 
 get_gdb_bingdbserver () {
 	local _CTF=$_GDB/bin/gdbserver
+
+	if [ ! -f $_CTF/arch/$_MACHINE_SUBDIR/config.h ]; then
+		return
+	fi
 	mkdir -p $_TOP/$_CTF/arch/$_MACHINE_SUBDIR
 
 	write_c $_CTF/arch/$_MACHINE_SUBDIR/config.h \