diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 2c5e730827..09a75933e2 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-builder = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.o
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-extended-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-docs-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-make-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-busybox = "Andrej Valek <andrej.valek@siemens.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-busybox-inittab = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-bzip2 = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-make-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-make-tarball.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3a9659076f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-make-tarball.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+require recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
+
+DESCRIPTION = "SDK type target for building a standalone make binary. The tarball can be used to run bitbake builds \
+               on systems where make is broken (e.g. the 4.2.1 version on CentOS 8 based distros)."
+SUMMARY = "Standalone tarball for running builds on systems with inadequate make"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+# Add nativesdk equivalent of build-essentials
+TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK = "\
+    nativesdk-sdk-provides-dummy \
+    nativesdk-make \
+    "
+TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME = "${SDK_ARCH}-buildtools-make-nativesdk-standalone-${DISTRO_VERSION}"
+
+SDK_TITLE = "Make build tool"