ld in binutils 2.36-3 does supports neither -no-pie nor --no-pie Workaround: in output/build/host-qemu-5.2.0/build/config-host.mak: LDFLAGS_NOPIE="" See also
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13536
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