diff --git a/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc b/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
index a73fc7f..265e428 100644
--- a/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
+++ b/includes-ros1/vision-opencv/cv-bridge-2.1.0.inc
@@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ ROS_BUILD_DEPENDS_remove = "python3-numpy"
 ROS_BUILDTOOL_DEPENDS += " \
     ${PYTHON_PN}-numpy-native \
 "
+
+# As of [thud], boost-python is part of boost (and it's always called boost-python, even if it's for Python 3). This setting
+# skips the check for a separate boost-python* package.
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DANDROID=ON"