diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/decorators.py b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/decorators.py
--- a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/decorators.py
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/decorators.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
+import distutils.spawn
 
 # Third-party modules
 import six
@@ -881,3 +882,18 @@
     return unittest2.skipIf(
         configuration.capture_path or configuration.replay_path,
         "reproducers unsupported")(func)
+
+def skipUnlessDWZInstalled(func):
+    """Decorate the item to skip tests when no DWZ optimization tool is available.
+       /usr/lib/rpm/sepdebugcrcfix is not tested here but it may be needed
+       when build-ids cannot be used."""
+
+    def is_dwz_missing(self):
+        if distutils.spawn.find_executable("dwz") is None:
+            return "skipping because dwz is not found"
+        # dwz has a bug it can process only separate debug info files.
+        # Moreover dwz is compatible only with debug infos created by eu-strip.
+        if distutils.spawn.find_executable("eu-strip") is None:
+            return "skipping because eu-strip is not found"
+        return None
+    return skipTestIfFn(is_dwz_missing)(func)
diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/Makefile b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/Makefile
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+LEVEL = ../../make
+C_SOURCES := main.c
+LD_EXTRAS += -Wl,--build-id=sha1
+
+all: .build-id
+
+.PHONY: .build-id
+stripped.out stripped.debug stripped.debug.dwz: a.out
+	eu-strip --remove-comment -f stripped.debug -F stripped.debugx -o stripped.out $<
+	cp -p stripped.debug stripped.debug.dup
+	dwz -m stripped.debug.dwz stripped.debug stripped.debug.dup
+
+.build-id: stripped.debug
+	$(OBJCOPY) -j .note.gnu.build-id -O binary $< tmp
+	rm -rf .build-id
+	fn=`od -An -tx1 <tmp|tr -d ' \n'|sed -e 's/^.\{32\}//' -e 's#^..#.build-id/&/#' -e 's#$$#.debug#'` && \
+	mkdir -p `dirname $$fn` && \
+	ln -s ../../$< $$fn
+	$(RM) tmp
+
+clean::
+	$(RM) -r stripped.out .build-id stripped.debug stripped.debug.dup stripped.debug.dwz
+
+include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.rules
diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/TestTargetSymbolsBuildidSymlink.py b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/TestTargetSymbolsBuildidSymlink.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/TestTargetSymbolsBuildidSymlink.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+""" Testing separate debug info loading for base binary with a symlink. """
+import os
+import time
+import lldb
+import sys
+from lldbsuite.test.decorators import *
+from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
+from lldbsuite.test import lldbutil
+
+
+class TestTargetSymbolsBuildidSymlink(TestBase):
+
+    mydir = TestBase.compute_mydir(__file__)
+
+    @no_debug_info_test  # Prevent the genaration of the dwarf version of this test
+    @skipUnlessPlatform(['linux'])
+    @skipIf(hostoslist=["windows"])
+    @skipIfRemote # llvm.org/pr36237
+    @skipUnlessDWZInstalled
+    def test_target_symbols_buildid_symlink(self):
+        self.build()
+        exe = self.getBuildArtifact("stripped.out")
+
+        lldbutil.run_to_name_breakpoint(self, "main", exe_name = exe)
diff --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/main.c b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/main.c
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/linux/buildidsymlink/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+struct s {
+  int i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8, i9;
+} v;
+int main() { return 0; }
diff --git a/lldb/source/Symbol/LocateSymbolFile.cpp b/lldb/source/Symbol/LocateSymbolFile.cpp
--- a/lldb/source/Symbol/LocateSymbolFile.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Symbol/LocateSymbolFile.cpp
@@ -350,6 +350,10 @@
       if (llvm::sys::fs::equivalent(file_spec.GetPath(),
                                     module_file_spec.GetPath()))
         continue;
+      if (FileSystem::Instance()
+              .ResolveSymbolicLink(file_spec, file_spec)
+              .Fail())
+        continue;
 
       if (FileSystem::Instance().Exists(file_spec)) {
         lldb_private::ModuleSpecList specs;