diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
index be93d60595..9498bf8111 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ BINCOMMANDS = "dbclient ssh scp"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'MULTI=1 SCPPROGRESS=1 PROGRAMS="${SBINCOMMANDS} ${BINCOMMANDS}"'
 EXTRA_OECONF += "\
  ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '--enable-pam', '--disable-pam', d)}"
+CFLAGS += "-DSFTPSERVER_PATH=\\"${libdir}/openssh/sftp-server\\""
 
 do_install() {
 	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir} \