diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index c2b6726daddbf..efe8ee0fe7e66 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ x = "run --package aptos-cargo-cli --bin aptos-cargo-cli --"
 rustflags = ["--cfg", "tokio_unstable", "-C", "force-frame-pointers=yes", "-C", "force-unwind-tables=yes"]
 
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
+linker = "clang"
 # We also need to include `-C linker-plugin-lto` for performance builds to take
 # full advantage of LTO, but we cannot add it here because it would affect dev
 # and release builds as well, so we add it via `--config 'build.rustflags=...'`