diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/rapidjson/rapidjson_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/rapidjson/rapidjson_git.bb
index cd18149504e..c90eab043b8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/rapidjson/rapidjson_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/rapidjson/rapidjson_git.bb
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_DOC=OFF -DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DRAPIDJ
 
 # RapidJSON is a header-only C++ library, so the main package will be empty.
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"