diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.6.bb b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.6.bb
index 77dffee12c..fb87d68c9f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.6.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ inherit autotools lib_package binconfig multilib_header
 
 OE_BINCONFIG_EXTRA_MANGLE = " -e 's:location=source:location=installed:'"
 
+# Added to fix some issues with cmake. Refer to https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/issues/68#issuecomment-19896928
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "apr_cv_mutex_recursive=yes"
+
 do_configure_prepend() {
 	cd ${S}
 	./buildconf
diff --git a/meta/site/powerpc32-linux b/meta/site/powerpc32-linux
index 251bffe1ef..e3929ac67d 100644
--- a/meta/site/powerpc32-linux
+++ b/meta/site/powerpc32-linux
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ apr_cv_use_lfs64=${apr_cv_use_lfs64=yes}
 apr_cv_epoll=${apr_cv_epoll=yes}
 apr_cv_pthreads_cflags=${apr_cv_pthreads_cflags=-pthread}
 apr_cv_pthreads_lib=${apr_cv_pthreads_lib=-lpthread}
-apr_cv_mutex_recursive=${apr_cv_mutex_recursive=yes}
 ac_cv_func_mmap=${ac_cv_func_mmap=yes}
 ac_cv_file__dev_zero=${ac_cv_file__dev_zero=yes}
 ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=4}