diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/010-Kbuild-don-t-hardcode-path-to-awk-in-scripts-ld-vers.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/010-Kbuild-don-t-hardcode-path-to-awk-in-scripts-ld-vers.patch
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+From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
+Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:27:49 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Kbuild: don't hardcode path to awk in scripts/ld-version.sh
+
+On some systems /usr/bin/awk does not exist, or is broken. Find it via
+$PATH instead.
+
+Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
+---
+
+--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
++++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/awk -f
++#!/usr/bin/env awk -f
+ # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
+ 	{
+ 	gsub(".*)", "");