diff --git a/targets/arm-unknown-none.json b/targets/arm-unknown-none.json
index 292fa6434441e18945700f1cd15ff15363460ad1..dad0ed5aaf149977919543bc11e28dbc1c232e51 100644
--- a/targets/arm-unknown-none.json
+++ b/targets/arm-unknown-none.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     "os": "none",
     "env": "",
     "vendor": "unknown",
+    "linker-flavor": "gcc",
     "target-family": "redox",
     "pre-link-args": ["-nostdlib", "-static"],
     "features": "+soft-float",
diff --git a/targets/x86_64-unknown-none.json b/targets/x86_64-unknown-none.json
index 10ff5414fb72abdfae2e119d721cd909b124e10a..12f5d727242dc9d565fa7c71192c23fd7394d8fe 100644
--- a/targets/x86_64-unknown-none.json
+++ b/targets/x86_64-unknown-none.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     "os": "none",
     "env": "",
     "vendor": "unknown",
+    "linker-flavor": "gcc",
     "target-family": "redox",
     "pre-link-args": ["-m64", "-nostdlib", "-static"],
     "features": "-mmx,-sse,-sse2,-sse3,-ssse3,-sse4.1,-sse4.2,-3dnow,-3dnowa,-avx,-avx2,+soft-float",