diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb
index 4dd9156238..10e006eaa8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb
@@ -18,5 +18,12 @@ SRCREV = "c9670c27ff67ab899007ce749254b16091577e55"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 PV = "1.9.0+git${SRCPV}"
 
+# largefile and 64bit time_t support adds these macros via compiler flags globally
+# remove them for pseudo since pseudo intercepts some of the functions which will be
+# aliased due to this e.g. open/open64 and it will complain about duplicate definitions
+# pseudo on 32bit systems is not much of use anyway and these features are not of much
+# use for it.
+TARGET_CPPFLAGS:remove = "-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+
 # error: use of undeclared identifier '_STAT_VER'
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'