diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 08d9e91704..bc3d4fefeb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -948,8 +948,8 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:arm ="numactl"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:mipsarch = "gperftools"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:riscv64 = "gperftools uim"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:riscv32 = "gperftools uim"
-RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:powerpc = "ssiapi tbb"
-RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:powerpc64le = "ssiapi"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:powerpc = "libcereal ssiapi tbb"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:powerpc64le = "libcereal ssiapi"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:libc-musl = "pcp"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support:remove:libc-musl:powerpc = "gsl"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcereal/libcereal_1.3.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcereal/libcereal_1.3.2.bb
index b76cd2eb60..0bb06c1d1f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcereal/libcereal_1.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcereal/libcereal_1.3.2.bb
@@ -44,3 +44,7 @@ ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+#it needs to work with CXXFLAGS += " -mlong-double-64" but ppc64 only supports 128bit long double
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:powerpc64le = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:powerpc = "null"