diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
index 6d72eb64b38..6bb5f7abb89 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dstatic-libsystemd=pic"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
+
 do_compile() {
     ninja -v ${PARALLEL_MAKE} version.h
     ninja -v ${PARALLEL_MAKE} libsystemd.a