diff --git a/meta/classes/utils.bbclass b/meta/classes/utils.bbclass
index 0016e5c4e6..cd3d05709e 100644
--- a/meta/classes/utils.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/utils.bbclass
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ create_wrapper () {
 realpath=\`readlink -fn \$0\`
 realdir=\`dirname \$realpath\`
 export $exportstring
-exec -a \`dirname \$realpath\`/$cmdname \`dirname \$realpath\`/$cmdname.real "\$@"
+exec -a "\$0" \$realdir/$cmdname.real "\$@"
 END
 	chmod +x $cmd
 }