diff --git a/src/cmd/cgo/internal/swig/swig_test.go b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/swig/swig_test.go
index 41563138a7..923378b2dd 100644
--- a/src/cmd/cgo/internal/swig/swig_test.go
+++ b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/swig/swig_test.go
@@ -44,11 +44,18 @@ func run(t *testing.T, dir string, lto bool, args ...string) {
 	cmd := exec.Command("go", runArgs...)
 	cmd.Dir = dir
 	if lto {
+		// On the builders we're using the default /usr/bin/ld, but
+		// that has problems when asking for LTO in particular. Force
+		// use of lld, which ships with our clang installation.
+		extraLDFlags := ""
+		if strings.Contains(testenv.Builder(), "clang") {
+			extraLDFlags += " -fuse-ld=lld"
+		}
 		const cflags = "-flto -Wno-lto-type-mismatch -Wno-unknown-warning-option"
 		cmd.Env = append(cmd.Environ(),
 			"CGO_CFLAGS="+cflags,
 			"CGO_CXXFLAGS="+cflags,
-			"CGO_LDFLAGS="+cflags)
+			"CGO_LDFLAGS="+cflags+extraLDFlags)
 	}
 	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
 	if string(out) != "OK\n" {