1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
index e789f59f0b..88561c773a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.21.bb
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ base_bindir_progs = "cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd echo false kill ln ls mkdi
 
 sbindir_progs= "chroot"
 
+# Deal with a separate builddir failure if src doesn't exist when creating version.c/version.h
+do_compile_prepend () {
+        mkdir -p ${B}/src
+}
+
 do_install_append() {
         for i in df mktemp base64; do mv ${D}${bindir}/$i ${D}${bindir}/$i.${BPN}; done