diff --git a/classes/vala.bbclass b/classes/vala.bbclass
index 2633905..2c23efb 100644
--- a/classes/vala.bbclass
+++ b/classes/vala.bbclass
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ VALA_DONT_STAGE_VAPIS ?= "\(/config.vapi$\)\|\(/config.deps$\)"
 
 # .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 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi
-	for VALAFILE in `find . -name "*.vapi" | grep -v "$VALA_DONT_STAGE_VAPIS"`; do install -m 0644 ${VALAFILE} ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi/; done
-	for VALAFILE in `find . -name "*.deps" | grep -v "$VALA_DONT_STAGE_VAPIS"`; do install -m 0644 ${VALAFILE} ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/vala/vapi/; done
+do_install_append() {
+	install -d ${D}${datadir}/vala/vapi
+	for VALAFILE in `find . -name "*.vapi" | grep -v "$VALA_DONT_STAGE_VAPIS"`; do install -m 0644 ${VALAFILE} ${D}${datadir}/vala/vapi/; done
+	for VALAFILE in `find . -name "*.deps" | grep -v "$VALA_DONT_STAGE_VAPIS"`; do install -m 0644 ${VALAFILE} ${D}${datadir}/vala/vapi/; done
 }