diff --git a/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch b/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index d9204f4..e9b4700 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -Wbitwise $(C
+ MODFLAGS	= -DMODULE
+ CFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
+ AFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
+-LDFLAGS_MODULE  = -r
++LDFLAGS_r	= -r -nostdlib
++LDFLAGS_MODULE  = $(LDFLAGS_r)
+ CFLAGS_KERNEL	=
+ AFLAGS_KERNEL	=
+ 
+@@ -330,7 +331,7 @@ KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
+ export	VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION \
+ 	ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \
+ 	CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \
+-	HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
++	HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_r LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
+ 
+ export CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS
+ export CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
+diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
+index 5685b5b..a3926ab 100644
+--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
++++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
+@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ cmd_modversions =							\
+ 		| $(GENKSYMS) -a $(ARCH)				\
+ 		> $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);				\
+ 									\
+-		$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) 		\
++		$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_r) -o $@ $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F)	\
+ 			-T $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);			\
+ 		rm -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);	\
+ 	else								\
+@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ ifdef builtin-target
+ quiet_cmd_link_o_target = LD      $@
+ # If the list of objects to link is empty, just create an empty built-in.o
+ cmd_link_o_target = $(if $(strip $(obj-y)),\
+-		$(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(filter $(obj-y), $^),\
++		$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_r) -o $@ $(filter $(obj-y), $^),\
+ 		rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs $@)
+ 
+ $(builtin-target): $(obj-y) FORCE
+@@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-objs)))    \
+ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-y)))), $^)
+ 
+ quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD      $@
+-cmd_link_multi-y = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
++cmd_link_multi-y = $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_r) -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
+ 
+ quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M]  $@
+-cmd_link_multi-m = $(LD) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
++cmd_link_multi-m = $(CC) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
+ 
+ # We would rather have a list of rules like
+ # 	foo.o: $(foo-objs)
+diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
+index 3e54ea7..fbdf2a6 100644
+--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
++++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
+@@ -117,12 +117,7 @@ a_flags        = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \
+ 
+ cpp_flags      = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(__cpp_flags)
+ 
+-# Seems to be a wrong thing to do. LDFLAGS contains gcc's flags,
+-# yet ld_flags is fed to ld.
+-#ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
+-# Remove the -Wl, prefix from linker options normally passed through gcc
+-ld_flags       = $(filter-out -Wl$(comma)%,$(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS))
+-
++ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
+ 
+ # Finds the multi-part object the current object will be linked into
+ modname-multi = $(sort $(foreach m,$(multi-used),\
+@@ -151,10 +146,8 @@ $(obj)/%:: $(src)/%_shipped
+ # Linking
+ # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
+-# TODO: LDFLAGS usually is supposed to contain gcc's flags, not ld's.
+-# but here we feed them to ld!
+-quiet_cmd_ld = LD      $@
+-cmd_ld = $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) \
++quiet_cmd_ld = CCLD    $@
++cmd_ld = $(CC) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) \
+ 	       $(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@
+ 
+ # Objcopy