diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk
index 4b52070fc2..64dce62a22 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PKG_SITE="https://ffmpeg.org"
 PKG_URL="https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain aom bzip2 openssl lame libvorbis opus x264 zlib"
 PKG_LONGDESC="FFmpegx is an complete FFmpeg build to support encoding and decoding."
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-gold -sysroot"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-sysroot"
 
 # Dependencies
 get_graphicdrivers
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
index 0460d51b02..3f77f99fe3 100644
--- a/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
+++ b/packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/package.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ PKG_LICENSE="LGPLv2.1+"
 PKG_SITE="https://ffmpeg.org"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib bzip2 openssl speex"
 PKG_LONGDESC="FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video."
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-gold"
 
 case "${PROJECT}" in
   Amlogic)
diff --git a/packages/network/samba/package.mk b/packages/network/samba/package.mk
index 7b7fb721cb..b3f695f804 100644
--- a/packages/network/samba/package.mk
+++ b/packages/network/samba/package.mk
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ PKG_URL="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain attr heimdal:host e2fsprogs Python3 libunwind zlib readline popt libaio connman gnutls wsdd2"
 PKG_NEED_UNPACK="$(get_pkg_directory heimdal) $(get_pkg_directory e2fsprogs)"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A free SMB / CIFS fileserver and client."
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-gold"
 
 configure_package() {
   #PKG_WAF_VERBOSE="-v"
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
index 8491f96dbe..88480d045a 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/package.mk
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ PKG_URL="https://busybox.net/downloads/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain hdparm dosfstools e2fsprogs zip usbutils parted procps-ng gptfdisk libtirpc"
 PKG_DEPENDS_INIT="toolchain libtirpc"
 PKG_LONGDESC="BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable."
-# busybox fails to build with GOLD support enabled with binutils-2.25
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-parallel -gold"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-parallel"
 
 # nano text editor
 if [ "${NANO_EDITOR}" = "yes" ]; then
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/fuse/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/fuse/package.mk
index c58e46f829..a557f7fdfd 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/fuse/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/fuse/package.mk
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ PKG_SITE="https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_LONGDESC="FUSE provides a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel."
-# fuse fails to build with GOLD linker on gcc-4.9
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-gold"
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="MOUNT_FUSE_PATH=/usr/sbin \