diff --git a/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch b/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/sys-apps/busybox/files/busybox-1.18.1-ldflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-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..5e733f8 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) $(CFLAGS) $(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) $(CFLAGS) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
- 
- # We would rather have a list of rules like
- # 	foo.o: $(foo-objs)
-diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
-index 3e54ea7..342b0d6 100644
---- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
-+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
-@@ -117,12 +117,7 @@ a_flags        = -Wp,-MD,$(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) $(CFLAGS) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) \
- 	       $(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@
- 
- # Objcopy