diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index d39f0124..b9cbe519 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 fn main() {
+    // Support for fixed-address compilation.
     libtock_build_scripts::auto_layout();
+
+    // Configure the alignment size for the linker. This prevents the linker
+    // from assuming very large pages (i.e. 65536 bytes) and unnecessarily
+    // inserting additional padding into the output ELF.
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-zmax-page-size=4096");
 }