diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-extended/sdbusplus/sdbusplus.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-extended/sdbusplus/sdbusplus.bb
index 5612440..2b3e05e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-extended/sdbusplus/sdbusplus.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-extended/sdbusplus/sdbusplus.bb
@@ -30,5 +30,6 @@
 
 PACKAGECONFIG_remove_class-native = "libsdbusplus"
 PACKAGECONFIG_remove_class-nativesdk = "libsdbusplus"
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND += "native nativesdk"