diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
index f9f36e68c4b..6b59e4934d5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
@@ -69,8 +69,10 @@ create_sdk_files:append () {
 	touch $script
 	echo 'export PATH=${SDKPATHNATIVE}${bindir_nativesdk}:${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sbindir_nativesdk}:${SDKPATHNATIVE}${base_bindir_nativesdk}:${SDKPATHNATIVE}${base_sbindir_nativesdk}:$PATH' >> $script
 	echo 'export OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT="${SDKPATHNATIVE}"' >> $script
-	echo 'export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
-	echo 'export SSL_CERT_FILE="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
+	if [ -e "${SDK_OUTPUT}${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" ]; then
+		echo 'export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
+		echo 'export SSL_CERT_FILE="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
+	fi
 
 	toolchain_create_sdk_version ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/version-${SDK_SYS}