-# The -Wl,--sort-section option is not supported by older versions of ld
-SORT_SECTION=`check_cc "-Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment" ""`
+# The --sort-section option is not supported by older versions of ld
+SORT_SECTION=`check_cc "-Wl,--sort-section,alignment" ""`
+
+START_GROUP="-Wl,--start-group"
+END_GROUP="-Wl,--end-group"
+INFO_OPTS="-Wl,--warn-common -Wl,-Map,$EXE.map -Wl,--verbose"
+
+# gold may not support --sort-common (yet)
+SORT_COMMON=`check_cc "-Wl,--sort-common" ""`