diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
index ae074b1c3..fedbe2119 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ extension GenericUnixToolchain {
       commandLine.appendPath(outputFile)
       return try resolvedTool(clangTool, pathOverride: clangPath)
     case .staticLibrary:
-      // We're using 'ar' as a linker
+      // We're using 'llvm-ar' as a linker
       commandLine.appendFlag("crs")
       commandLine.appendPath(outputFile)
 
@@ -353,12 +353,7 @@ extension GenericUnixToolchain {
                             lto == nil ? $0.type == .object
                                        : $0.type == .object || $0.type == .llvmBitcode
                          }.map { .path($0.file) })
-      if targetTriple.environment == .android {
-        // Always use the LTO archiver llvm-ar for Android
-        return try resolvedTool(.staticLinker(.llvmFull))
-      } else {
-        return try resolvedTool(.staticLinker(lto))
-      }
+      return try resolvedTool(.staticLinker(.llvmFull))
     }
 
   }
diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Toolchains/GenericUnixToolchain.swift b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Toolchains/GenericUnixToolchain.swift
index b1558fe12..48960b908 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Toolchains/GenericUnixToolchain.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Toolchains/GenericUnixToolchain.swift
@@ -101,10 +101,7 @@ public final class GenericUnixToolchain: Toolchain {
     switch tool {
     case .swiftCompiler:
       return try lookup(executable: "swift-frontend")
-    case .staticLinker(nil):
-      return try lookup(executable: "ar")
-    case .staticLinker(.llvmFull),
-         .staticLinker(.llvmThin):
+    case .staticLinker:
       return try lookup(executable: "llvm-ar")
     case .dynamicLinker:
       // FIXME: This needs to look in the tools_directory first.
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
index 1ea286c62..363aa5a14 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
@@ -2685,7 +2685,8 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
 
       let linkJob = plannedJobs[3]
       let cmd = linkJob.commandLine
-      // we'd expect "ar crs libTest.a foo.o bar.o"
+      // we'd expect "llvm-ar crs libTest.a foo.o bar.o"
+      XCTAssertTrue(linkJob.tool.name.contains("llvm-ar"))
       XCTAssertTrue(cmd.contains(.flag("crs")))
       XCTAssertTrue(commandContainsTemporaryPath(cmd, "foo.o"))
       XCTAssertTrue(commandContainsTemporaryPath(cmd, "bar.o"))