Denis,

older versions of gcc do not support the -Wl,--sort-section 
option. The following patch to scripts/trylink handles this.
Is it ok that I commit it?

Index: scripts/trylink
===================================================================
--- scripts/trylink     (revision 20409)
+++ scripts/trylink     (working copy)
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@
     return $exitcode
 }
 
+check_gcc() {
+    if $CC $1 -shared -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "$1";
+    else
+        echo "$2";
+    fi
+}
+
 EXE="$1"
 CC="$2"
 LDFLAGS="$3"
@@ -53,6 +61,9 @@
 A_FILES="$5"
 LDLIBS="$6"
 
+# The -Wl,--sort-section option is not supported by older versions of
gcc
+SORT_SECTION=`check_gcc "-Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment"`
+
 # Sanitize lib list (dups, extra spaces etc)
 LDLIBS=`echo "$LDLIBS" | xargs -n1 | sort | uniq | xargs`
 
@@ -64,7 +75,7 @@
 try $CC $LDFLAGS \
        -o $EXE \
        -Wl,--sort-common \
-       -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+       $SORT_SECTION \
        -Wl,--gc-sections \
        -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
        $l_list \
@@ -88,7 +99,7 @@
        try $CC $LDFLAGS \
                -o $EXE \
                -Wl,--sort-common \
-               -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+               $SORT_SECTION \
                -Wl,--gc-sections \
                -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
                $l_list
@@ -117,7 +128,7 @@
     try $CC $LDFLAGS \
            -o $EXE \
            -Wl,--sort-common \
-           -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+           $SORT_SECTION \
            -Wl,--gc-sections \
            -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
            $l_list \
@@ -139,7 +150,7 @@
     try $CC $LDFLAGS \
            -o $EXE \
            -Wl,--sort-common \
-           -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+           $SORT_SECTION \
            -Wl,--gc-sections \
            -Wl,-T -Wl,busybox_ldscript \
            -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
@@ -174,7 +185,7 @@
            -Wl,-soname="libbusybox.so.$BB_VER" \
            -Wl,--undefined=lbb_main \
            -Wl,--sort-common \
-           -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+           $SORT_SECTION \
            -Wl,--start-group $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
            $l_list \
            -Wl,--warn-common \
@@ -195,7 +206,7 @@
     try $CC $LDFLAGS \
            -o $EXE \
            -Wl,--sort-common \
-           -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+           $SORT_SECTION \
            -Wl,--gc-sections \
            -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
            -L"$sharedlib_dir" -lbusybox \
@@ -234,7 +245,7 @@
        try $CC $LDFLAGS "$sharedlib_dir/applet.c" \
                -o $EXE \
                -Wl,--sort-common \
-               -Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment \
+               $SORT_SECTION \
                -Wl,--gc-sections \
                -L"$sharedlib_dir" -lbusybox \
                -Wl,--warn-common \

///Peter
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