diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index 7a58088462..f9e2b9f4ee 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = '\
     EXTRA_LDFLAGS="${PERF_EXTRA_LDFLAGS}" \
     perfexecdir=${libexecdir} \
     NO_GTK2=1 \
+    NO_LIBLLVM=1 \
     ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS} \
     PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config \
     TMPDIR="${B}" \