diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.54.5.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.54.5.bb
index fc52ae6..b2e93a2 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.54.5.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.54.5.bb
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 
 inherit rust-target-config
 
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-target = "--enable-vala"
+
 # rust-cross writes the target linker binary into target json definition without any flags.
 # This breaks here because the linker isn't going to work without at least knowing where
 # the sysroot is. So copy the json to workdir, and patch in the path to wrapper from rust class