diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys.py
b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys.py
index ec9d510e23..0a08fc64ca 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys.py
@@ -808,6 +808,8 @@ class VersionFileRecipeHandler(RecipeHandler):
             version = None
             for fileitem in filelist:
                 linecount = 0
+                if not os.path.isfile(fileitem):
+                    continue
                 with open(fileitem, 'r', errors='surrogateescape') as f:
                     for line in f:
                         line = line.rstrip().strip('"\'')