diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index b7ea85159c..29890e38c9 100644
--- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ if [ "$dl_path" = "" ] ; then
 	echo "SDK could not be set up. Relocate script unable to find ld-linux.so. Abort!"
 	exit 1
 fi
-executable_files=$($SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -perm /111)
+executable_files=$($SUDO_EXEC find $native_sysroot -type f -perm /111 -exec file '{}' \;| grep "\(executable\|dynamically linked\)" | cut -f 1 -d ':') 
 
 tdir=`mktemp -d`
 if [ x$tdir = x ] ; then