diff --git a/libports/src/lib/libc/rlimit.cc b/libports/src/lib/libc/rlimit.cc
index 246c9e9db8..4991698cad 100644
--- a/libports/src/lib/libc/rlimit.cc
+++ b/libports/src/lib/libc/rlimit.cc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 #include "libc_debug.h"
 
-extern "C" int getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlim)
+extern "C" int __attribute__((weak)) getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlim)
 {
 	/*
 	 * The pthread init code on Linux calls getrlimit