diff --git a/recipes-ros/roscpp-core/roscpp-core_0.3.12.bb b/recipes-ros/roscpp-core/roscpp-core_0.3.12.bb
index 9a3a161f09effacc084990213ac3b2c89b46af9f..2894e88ca6661067d05991de74124091048b7a7b 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/roscpp-core/roscpp-core_0.3.12.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/roscpp-core/roscpp-core_0.3.12.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b9ed9dadb21430deb87d56f4051da80238a36feea972ec0d3cecbfe91b
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/roscpp_core-release-release-roscpp_core-0.3.12"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
+
+DEPENDS = "\
   ros-cpp-common \
   roscpp-serialization \
   roscpp-traits \