DEPENDS += "vala-native"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/vala/vapi/*.vapi"
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "\
+ ${datadir}/vala/vapi/*.vapi \
+ ${datadir}/vala/vapi/*.deps \
+"
+
+# .vapi and .deps files are arch independent and need to be present in the
+# staging datadir for the native vala compiler
+do_stage_append() {
+ install -d ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi
+ find . -name "*.vapi" -exec install -m 0644 {} ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi/ \;
+ find . -name "*.deps" -exec install -m 0644 {} ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi/ \;
+}