diff --git a/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/poison/poison.bb b/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/poison/poison.bb
index 7ace901..e9eee0c 100644
--- a/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/poison/poison.bb
+++ b/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/poison/poison.bb
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@
 # will result in compiler errors.  This recipe should will fail to build and
 # oe-selftest has a test that verifies that.
 do_compile() {
-    touch empty.c
-    ${CPP} ${CFLAGS} -I/usr/include empty.c
+    bbnote Testing preprocessor
+    echo "int main(int argc, char** argv) {}" | ${CPP} -I/usr/include -
+    bbnote Testing C compiler
+    echo "int main(int argc, char** argv) {}" | ${CC} -x c -I/usr/include -
+    bbnote Testing C++ compiler
+    echo "int main(int argc, char** argv) {}" | ${CC} -x c++ -I/usr/include -
 }
 
 EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"