diff --git a/mruby/tasks/toolchains/gcc.rake b/mruby/tasks/toolchains/gcc.rake
index 51bda6517..9bc96d0e2 100644
--- a/mruby/tasks/toolchains/gcc.rake
+++ b/mruby/tasks/toolchains/gcc.rake
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ MRuby::Toolchain.new(:gcc) do |conf, params|
   end
 
   conf.linker do |linker|
-    linker.command = ENV['LD'] || ENV['CXX'] || ENV['CC'] || default_command
+    linker.command = ENV['CXX'] || ENV['CC'] || default_command
     linker.flags = [ENV['LDFLAGS'] || %w()]
     linker.libraries = %w(m)
     linker.library_paths = []