Don't error out if metafiles are linked

Closes #16008.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
index 1cbafaef8..0c55e6a6f 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb
@@ -383,6 +383,9 @@ class Pathname
       next unless FORMULA_META_FILES.should_copy? p
       # Some software symlinks these files (see help2man.rb)
       filename = p.resolved_path
+      # Some software links metafiles together, so by the time we iterate to one of them
+      # we may have already moved it. libxml2's COPYING and Copyright are affected by this.
+      next unless filename.exist?
       filename.chmod 0644
       self.install filename
     end