From af19d889ef320f9625aae42eed6688b5cc739793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:47:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] copyleft_compliance: force the symlink creation

(From OE-Core rev: 74b82fd4cc3e5eec611800935f1c89db3bac9971)

Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Gilbert Coville <gilbert_coville@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass b/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
index 786cf1e9c7..06b02278d3 100644
--- a/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ python do_prepare_copyleft_sources () {
             if os.path.exists(tarball_path):
                 local = tarball_path
 
-        os.symlink(local, os.path.join(dest, os.path.basename(local)))
+        oe.path.symlink(local, os.path.join(dest, os.path.basename(local)), force=True)
 
     patches = src_patches(d)
     for patch in patches: