diff --git a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
index a12cd64852..53e793ad4e 100644
--- a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
 DEPENDS_prepend = "pkgconfig-native "
+
+PKGCONFIGRDEP = "pkgconfig"
+PKGCONFIGRDEP_virtclass-native = ""
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "${PKGCONFIGRDEP}"