diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
index 9557c9345e..6a1a029566 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
                 "
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
 
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/libabsl_*.so ${libdir}/cmake"
-FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir}"
+FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/libabsl_*.so"
+FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir} ${libdir}/cmake"