diff --git a/packages/network/wpa_supplicant/build b/packages/network/wpa_supplicant/build
index 14fb3338b8..c5eba23218 100755
--- a/packages/network/wpa_supplicant/build
+++ b/packages/network/wpa_supplicant/build
@@ -4,5 +4,9 @@
 
 $SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 
+# Suffers from bug 42453 <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42453>.
+  CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | sed -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
+  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD/wpa_supplicant
 make