diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_4.19.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_4.19.1.bb
index af11dec5ef..086f100229 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_4.19.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_4.19.1.bb
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 DEPENDS = "lua libgcrypt file popt xz bzip2 elfutils python3 sqlite3 zstd"
 DEPENDS:append:class-native = " file-replacement-native bzip2-replacement-native"
 
+EXTRA_OECMAKE:append = " -D__CURL:FILEPATH=curl"
 EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:libc-musl = " -DENABLE_NLS=OFF -DENABLE_OPENMP=OFF"
 
 # --sysconfdir prevents rpm from attempting to access machine-specific configuration in sysroot/etc; we need to have it in rootfs