diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/obmc-phosphor-event/obmc-phosphor-event.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/obmc-phosphor-event/obmc-phosphor-event.bb
index 6cdf398..3b8ce0e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/obmc-phosphor-event/obmc-phosphor-event.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/obmc-phosphor-event/obmc-phosphor-event.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 inherit obmc-phosphor-sdbus-service
 inherit obmc-phosphor-c-daemon
 
+TARGET_CPPFLAGS += "-std=c++11 -fpic"
 
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-event"
 
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 INSTALL_NAME = "event_messaged"
 
 do_install() {
+        install -d ${D}/var/lib/obmc/events/
         install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sbindir}
         install -m 0755 ${S}/${INSTALL_NAME} ${D}/${sbindir}/obmc-phosphor-eventd
 }