diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
index 30b39d245f..adab4fa753 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ CPPFLAGS_append_powerpc = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/pango-1.0 \
                             -I${STAGING_LIBDIR}/glib-2.0/include \
                             -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/glib-2.0"
 
+# ld can run out of memory linking libwebkitgtk!
+#
+LDFLAGS += "-Wl,--no-keep-memory"
+
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF = " -I Source/autotools "