diff --git a/src/bootstrap/defaults/config.dist.toml b/src/bootstrap/defaults/config.dist.toml
index d06930f2b9d9b..d4feffe02271c 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/defaults/config.dist.toml
+++ b/src/bootstrap/defaults/config.dist.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ download-ci-llvm = false
 # Make sure they don't get set when installing from source.
 channel = "nightly"
 download-rustc = false
+lld = true
 # Build the llvm-bitcode-linker
 llvm-bitcode-linker = true