diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
index 6130ab4665..e343242366 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ B = "${S}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--program-prefix=${TARGET_PREFIX} \
                 --enable-install-libbfd \
                 --enable-shared \
+                --disable-werror \
                 ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native = "--enable-target=all --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-install-libbfd"
@@ -113,11 +114,11 @@ do_install () {
 	cd ${D}${bindir}
 
 	# Symlinks for ease of running these on the native target
-	for p in ${TARGET_SYS}-* ; do
+	for p in ${TARGET_PREFIX}* ; do
 		ln -sf $p `echo $p | sed -e s,${TARGET_PREFIX},,`
 	done
 
-	rm ${D}${bindir}/ar ${D}${bindir}/strings
+	rm -f ${D}${bindir}/ar ${D}${bindir}/strings
 
 	oe_multilib_header bfd.h
 }