diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
index 0f818b437d..77c51a3d36 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
@@ -468,9 +468,9 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BLACKFIN_UCLINUX_2013R1)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_
 define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_EXTRACT_CMDS
 	mkdir -p $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR)
 	$(call suitable-extractor,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE)) $(DL_DIR)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE) | \
-		$(TAR) --strip-components=3 --hard-dereference -C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
+		$(TAR) --strip-components=3 -C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
 	$(call suitable-extractor,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS)) $(DL_DIR)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS) | \
-		$(TAR) --strip-components=3 --hard-dereference -C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
+		$(TAR) --strip-components=3 -C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
 endef
 else ifneq ($(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE),)
 # Normal handling of toolchain tarball extraction.