diff --git a/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend b/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend
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+# CMake requires binaries to exist in sysroot, even if they have wrong architecture.
+SYSROOT_DIRS += "${bindir}"