diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/guile/guile_2.0.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/guile/guile_2.0.9.bb
index 0dd61ff2a2..d99e71000a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/guile/guile_2.0.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/guile/guile_2.0.9.bb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
 
 DEPENDS = "libunistring bdwgc gmp libtool libffi"
 # add guile-native only to the target recipe's DEPENDS
-DEPENDS += "${@['guile-native libatomics-ops', ''][d.getVar('PN', True) != 'guile']}"
+DEPENDS_append_class-target = " guile-native libatomics-ops"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_libc-glibc_class-target = "glibc-gconv-iso8859-1"