diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
index 00c016db446..894641ea276 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', '-DWITH_SYSTEMD=ON -DSYSTEMD_UNIT_INSTALL_DIR=${systemd_system_unitdir}', '', d)} \
 "
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "usb_backend network_backend"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "usb_backend network_backend serial_backend"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[usb_backend] = "-DWITH_USB_BACKEND=ON,-DWITH_USB_BACKEND=OFF,libusb1,libxml2"
 PACKAGECONFIG[network_backend] = "-DWITH_NETWORK_BACKEND=ON,-DWITH_NETWORK_BACKEND=OFF,libxml2"
+PACKAGECONFIG[serial_backend] = "-DWITH_SERIAL_BACKEND=ON,-DWITH_SERIAL_BACKEND=off,libserialport libxml2"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libiio-python3] = "-DPYTHON_BINDINGS=ON,-DPYTHON_BINDINGS=OFF"
 
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-iiod ${PN}-tests ${PN}-${PYTHON_PN}"