diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
index e17685a117..53435f22ae 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@ fakeroot tar_sdk() {
 	rm sysroots -rf
 	patchelf --set-interpreter ${@''.join('a' for n in xrange(1024))} ./${BUILD_SYS}/usr/bin/patchelf
 	mv ./${BUILD_SYS}/usr/bin/patchelf ./${BUILD_SYS}/usr/bin/patchelf-uninative
-	tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -c --file=${SDK_DEPLOY}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.tar.bz2 .
+	tar ${SDKTAROPTS} -c -j --file=${SDK_DEPLOY}/${TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.tar.bz2 .
 }