diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtar/libtar_1.2.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtar/libtar_1.2.20.bb
index 60710f416a..f93d9c09a5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtar/libtar_1.2.20.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtar/libtar_1.2.20.bb
@@ -19,3 +19,5 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "zlib"
 PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--with-zlib,--without-zlib,zlib"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND += "native"