By default, symlink re-creation fails if the link already exists, more specifically in case of meson-install-symlink.py: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/<path_to_libvirt_repo>/scripts/meson-install-symlink.py", line 15, in <module> os.symlink(target, link) FileExistsError: File exists: '../default.xml' -> 'default.xml' Unfortunately, Python can't mimic "ln -sf", so we have to fix this differently - remove the existing link first and then try re-creating it. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- This version suffers from the same problem as v1, but I didn't bother putting that into the commit message anymore as the consensus seems to be that we don't care. scripts/meson-install-symlink.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/meson-install-symlink.py b/scripts/meson-install-symlink.py index e38507072d..d8817fb9be 100644 --- a/scripts/meson-install-symlink.py +++ b/scripts/meson-install-symlink.py @@ -12,4 +12,8 @@ workdir = os.path.join(destdir, dirname.strip(os.sep)) os.makedirs(workdir, exist_ok=True) os.chdir(workdir) + +if os.path.exists(link): + os.remove(link) + os.symlink(target, link) -- 2.26.2