base.bbclass: ensure HOSTTOOLS links point to executables

Use the new executable argument to bb.utils.which() to ensure that the symlinks
point to executable files and not for example directories with the right name
which happened to be on $PATH.

[ YOCTO #11256 ]

(From OE-Core rev: 7f40c934c3aeb1d34f95f30b281e25a17c428fce)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index cf8748a502..e29821f199 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ def setup_hosttools_dir(dest, toolsvar, d, fatal=True):
     for tool in tools:
         desttool = os.path.join(dest, tool)
         if not os.path.exists(desttool):
-            srctool = bb.utils.which(path, tool)
+            srctool = bb.utils.which(path, tool, executable=True)
             if "ccache" in srctool:
-                srctool = bb.utils.which(path, tool, direction=1)
+                srctool = bb.utils.which(path, tool, executable=True, direction=1)
             if srctool:
                 os.symlink(srctool, desttool)
             else: