diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_254.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_254.bb
index 6240ee9339..1b8ff6e3ab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_254.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_254.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ c_ld = ${@meson_array('EFI_LD', d)}
 EOF
 }
 
+MESON_TARGET = "systemd-boot"
+
 EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Defi=true \
                   -Dbootloader=true \
                   -Dman=false \
@@ -54,10 +56,6 @@ CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -D__DEFINED_wchar_t"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(aarch64.*|arm.*|x86_64.*|i.86.*)-linux"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:x86-x32 = "null"
 
-do_compile() {
-	ninja systemd-boot
-}
-
 do_install() {
 	install -d ${D}${EFI_FILES_PATH}
 	install ${B}/src/boot/efi/systemd-boot*.efi ${D}${EFI_FILES_PATH}/${SYSTEMD_BOOT_IMAGE}