diff --git a/src/bootstrap/check.rs b/src/bootstrap/check.rs
index b76515763fb..586a362b5e3 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/check.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/check.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ fn run(self, builder: &Builder<'_>) {
         let compiler = builder.compiler(0, builder.config.build);
 
         let mut cargo = builder.cargo(compiler, Mode::Std, target, cargo_subcommand(builder.kind));
-        std_cargo(builder, target, &mut cargo);
+        std_cargo(builder, target, compiler.stage, &mut cargo);
 
         builder.info(&format!("Checking std artifacts ({} -> {})", &compiler.host, target));
         run_cargo(
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/compile.rs b/src/bootstrap/compile.rs
index f44096af6dd..06ab0a9c310 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/compile.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/compile.rs
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ fn run(self, builder: &Builder<'_>) {
         target_deps.extend(copy_third_party_objects(builder, &compiler, target).into_iter());
 
         let mut cargo = builder.cargo(compiler, Mode::Std, target, "build");
-        std_cargo(builder, target, &mut cargo);
+        std_cargo(builder, target, compiler.stage, &mut cargo);
 
         builder.info(&format!(
             "Building stage{} std artifacts ({} -> {})",
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ fn copy_third_party_objects(
 
 /// Configure cargo to compile the standard library, adding appropriate env vars
 /// and such.
-pub fn std_cargo(builder: &Builder<'_>, target: Interned<String>, cargo: &mut Cargo) {
+pub fn std_cargo(builder: &Builder<'_>, target: Interned<String>, stage: u32, cargo: &mut Cargo) {
     if let Some(target) = env::var_os("MACOSX_STD_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET") {
         cargo.env("MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET", target);
     }
@@ -231,6 +231,18 @@ pub fn std_cargo(builder: &Builder<'_>, target: Interned<String>, cargo: &mut Ca
             }
         }
     }
+
+    // By default, rustc uses `-Cbitcode-in-rlib=yes`, and Cargo overrides that
+    // with `-Cbitcode-in-rlib=no` for non-LTO builds. However, libstd must be
+    // built with bitcode so that the produced rlibs can be used for both LTO
+    // builds (which use bitcode) and non-LTO builds (which use object code).
+    // So we override the override here!
+    //
+    // But we don't bother for the stage 0 compiler because it's never used
+    // with LTO.
+    if stage >= 1 {
+        cargo.rustflag("-Cbitcode-in-rlib=yes");
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/doc.rs b/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
index 04da3cc1015..fc217a707db 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ fn run(self, builder: &Builder<'_>) {
 
         let run_cargo_rustdoc_for = |package: &str| {
             let mut cargo = builder.cargo(compiler, Mode::Std, target, "rustdoc");
-            compile::std_cargo(builder, target, &mut cargo);
+            compile::std_cargo(builder, target, compiler.stage, &mut cargo);
 
             // Keep a whitelist so we do not build internal stdlib crates, these will be
             // build by the rustc step later if enabled.
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/test.rs b/src/bootstrap/test.rs
index 85c5d28bb89..125563b7b60 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/test.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/test.rs
@@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ fn run(self, builder: &Builder<'_>) {
         let mut cargo = builder.cargo(compiler, mode, target, test_kind.subcommand());
         match mode {
             Mode::Std => {
-                compile::std_cargo(builder, target, &mut cargo);
+                compile::std_cargo(builder, target, compiler.stage, &mut cargo);
             }
             Mode::Rustc => {
                 builder.ensure(compile::Rustc { compiler, target });