diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.1.bb
index d57e147a7e..55663c7713 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.1.bb
@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash findutils gawk liberror-perl make perl perl-module
 
 # -dev automatic dependencies fails as we don't want libmodule-build-perl-dev, its too heavy
 # may need tweaking if DEPENDS changes
+# Can't use ${PN}-dev here since flags with overrides and key expansion not supported
 RRECOMMENDS:coreutils-dev[nodeprrecs] = "1"
-RRECOMMENDS:coreutils-dev = "acl-dev attr-dev gmp-dev libcap-dev bash-dev findutils-dev gawk-dev shadow-dev"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dev += "acl-dev attr-dev gmp-dev libcap-dev bash-dev findutils-dev gawk-dev shadow-dev"
 
 do_install_ptest () {
     install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests