diff --git a/nuttx-configs/px4io-v1/scripts/ld.script b/nuttx-configs/px4io-v1/scripts/ld.script
index 69c2f9cb2e..1a73b432c1 100755
--- a/nuttx-configs/px4io-v1/scripts/ld.script
+++ b/nuttx-configs/px4io-v1/scripts/ld.script
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.gcc_except_table)
 		*(.gnu.linkonce.r.*)
 		_etext = ABSOLUTE(.);
+		/* 
+		 * This is a hack to make the newlib libm __errno() call
+		 * use the NuttX get_errno_ptr() function.
+		 */
+		__errno = get_errno_ptr;
 	} > flash
 
 	/*