diff -urpN busybox-1.14.3/scripts/trylink busybox-1.14.3-trylink-gc-sections/scripts/trylink
--- busybox-1.14.3/scripts/trylink	2009-08-02 20:16:36.000000000 +0200
+++ busybox-1.14.3-trylink-gc-sections/scripts/trylink	2009-09-09 01:53:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ else
 fi
 )`
 
+# The --gc-sections option is not supported by older versions of ld
+if test -n "$GC_SECTIONS"; then
+    GC_SECTIONS=`check_cc "$GC_SECTIONS" ""`
+fi
+
 # Sanitize lib list (dups, extra spaces etc)
 LDLIBS=`echo "$LDLIBS" | xargs -n1 | sort | uniq | xargs`