diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
index a810a07d98..b023deaf4b 100755
--- a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
+++ b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 
 setup_toolchain host
 
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fwhole-program"
+
 cd $BUILD/$1*/squashfs-tools
 make mksquashfs \
      XZ_SUPPORT=1 \
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.2-gzip_fix.patch b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.2-gzip_fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..80260e555d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.2-gzip_fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur squashfs4.2-old/squashfs-tools/compressor.c squashfs4.2-new/squashfs-tools/compressor.c
+--- squashfs4.2-old/squashfs-tools/compressor.c	2011-02-11 07:49:24.000000000 -0800
++++ squashfs4.2-new/squashfs-tools/compressor.c	2011-03-04 10:27:47.000000000 -0800
+@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
+ 
+ #ifndef GZIP_SUPPORT
+ static struct compressor gzip_comp_ops =  {
+-	NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, ZLIB_COMPRESSION, "gzip", 0
++	NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, ZLIB_COMPRESSION, "gzip", 0
+ };
+ #else
+ extern struct compressor gzip_comp_ops;