diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdrcopy/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdrcopy/package.py
index 9b99a81319f..c9b9640c620 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdrcopy/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdrcopy/package.py
@@ -30,7 +30,14 @@ class Gdrcopy(MakefilePackage, CudaPackage):
 
     # Don't call ldconfig: https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy/pull/229
     patch("ldconfig.patch", when="@2.0:2.3")
+    # Allow tests to build against libcuda.so stub
+    patch(
+        "https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy/commit/508dd6179dcb04ba7720e2da5124b77bbdb615b0.patch?full_index=1",
+        sha256="cc18b13b6ea5512959464a85a43cdfda0bee5522a471e98ca76ba379bf582b5a",
+        when="@2.0:2.3",
+    )
 
+    depends_on("pkgconfig", type="build", when="@2.0:2.3")
     depends_on("check")
     requires("+cuda")