diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 057a213c96..0e3934b598 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ SRC_URI = "file://${FILE}"
 # default is fakeroot but in Poky we use pseudo
 # this is hopefully only temporary, to work around the database becoming corrupt
 PSEUDO_DATADIR ?= "${WORKDIR}/pseudo/"
-FAKEROOT = "PSEUDO_DATADIR=${PSEUDO_DATADIR} PSEUDO_PREFIX=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${prefix_native} pseudo"
+FAKEROOT = "PSEUDO_DATADIR=${PSEUDO_DATADIR} PSEUDO_PREFIX=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${prefix_native} PSEUDO_NOSYMLINKEXP=1 pseudo"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/fakeroot-native ?= "pseudo-native"