diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcppkafka/libcppkafka_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcppkafka/libcppkafka_git.bb
index 0cb33fcd50..fd57e4e283 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcppkafka/libcppkafka_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcppkafka/libcppkafka_git.bb
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 do_install:append(){
     chrpath -d ${D}${libdir}/libcppkafka.so.0.3.1
+    sed -i -e 's|${STAGING_INCDIR}|\$\{includedir\}|g' ${D}${datadir}/pkgconfig/cppkafka.pc
 }