why it was needed then; perhaps fixed by the bump in binutils?
Removing it enables the full relro layout for ld.so.
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile.inc,v 1.5 2012/09/02 16:32:52 jsg Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile.inc,v 1.6 2016/08/15 03:09:02 guenther Exp $
CFLAGS += -fpic
CFLAGS+=-m4-nofpu
AFLAGS += -D_STANDALONE
CPPFLAGS += -I${.CURDIR}/../../lib/libc/arch/sh
-ELF_LDFLAGS+=-z nocombreloc
LIBCSRCDIR=${.CURDIR}/../../lib/libc
LDADD= `$(CC) -print-libgcc-file-name`