diff --git a/bin/tests/system/tsiggss/prereq.sh b/bin/tests/system/tsiggss/prereq.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c1a32a3d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/tests/system/tsiggss/prereq.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+TOP=${SYSTEMTESTTOP:=.}/../../../..
+
+# enable the tsiggss test only if gssapi was enabled
+$TOP/bin/named/named -V | grep with.gssapi | grep -v with-gssapi=no > /dev/null || {
+    echo "I:BIND9 was not built with --with-gssapi"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+exit 0