diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
index de399173ba..34f7773398 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ create_sdk_files:append () {
 		echo 'export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
 		echo 'export CURL_CA_BUNDLE="${SDKPATHNATIVE}${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"' >>$script
 	fi
+	echo 'HOST_PKG_PATH=$(command -p pkg-config --variable=pc_path pkg-config 2>/dev/null)' >>$script
+	echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=${SDKPATHNATIVE}/${libdir}/pkgconfig:${SDKPATHNATIVE}/${datadir}/pkgconfig:${HOST_PKG_PATH:-/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig}' >>$script
+	echo 'unset HOST_PKG_PATH'
 
 	toolchain_create_sdk_version ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/version-${SDK_SYS}