diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
index e130803ff..277ccf74d 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
@@ -168,22 +168,13 @@ extension GenericUnixToolchain {
       }
 
       if !isEmbeddedEnabled && !parsedOptions.hasArgument(.nostartfiles) {
-        let rsrc: VirtualPath
-        // Prefer the swiftrt.o runtime file from the SDK if it's specified.
-        if let sdk = targetInfo.sdkPath {
-          let swiftDir: String
-          if staticStdlib || staticExecutable {
-            swiftDir = "swift_static"
-          } else {
-            swiftDir = "swift"
-          }
-          rsrc = VirtualPath.lookup(sdk.path).appending(components: "usr", "lib", swiftDir)
-        } else {
-          rsrc = VirtualPath.lookup(targetInfo.runtimeResourcePath.path)
-        }
-        let platform: String = targetTriple.platformName() ?? ""
-        let architecture: String = majorArchitectureName(for: targetTriple)
-        commandLine.appendPath(rsrc.appending(components: platform, architecture, "swiftrt.o"))
+        let swiftrtPath = VirtualPath.lookup(targetInfo.runtimeResourcePath.path)
+          .appending(
+            components: targetTriple.platformName() ?? "",
+            String(majorArchitectureName(for: targetTriple)),
+            "swiftrt.o"
+          )
+        commandLine.appendPath(swiftrtPath)
       }
 
       // If we are linking statically, we need to add all
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
index dea028256..5beea814c 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
@@ -7159,14 +7159,10 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
 
   func testRelativeResourceDir() throws {
     do {
-      // Reset the environment to avoid 'SDKROOT' influencing the
-      // linux driver paths and taking the priority over the resource directory.
-      var env = ProcessEnv.vars
-      env["SDKROOT"] = nil
       var driver = try Driver(args: ["swiftc",
                                      "-target", "x86_64-unknown-linux", "-lto=llvm-thin",
                                      "foo.swift",
-                                     "-resource-dir", "resource/dir"], env: env)
+                                     "-resource-dir", "resource/dir"])
       let plannedJobs = try driver.planBuild().removingAutolinkExtractJobs()
 
       let compileJob = plannedJobs[0]
@@ -7181,7 +7177,7 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
     }
   }
 
-  func testSDKDirLinuxPrioritizedOverRelativeResourceDirForLinkingSwiftRT() throws {
+  func testRelativeResourceDirLinuxPrioritizedOverSDKDirForLinkingSwiftRT() throws {
     do {
       let sdkRoot = try testInputsPath.appending(component: "mock-sdk.sdk")
       var env = ProcessEnv.vars
@@ -7195,7 +7191,7 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
       XCTAssertEqual(compileJob.kind, .compile)
       let linkJob = plannedJobs[1]
       XCTAssertEqual(linkJob.kind, .link)
-      try XCTAssertJobInvocationMatches(linkJob, toPathOption(sdkRoot.pathString + "/usr/lib/swift/linux/x86_64/swiftrt.o", isRelative: false))
+      try XCTAssertJobInvocationMatches(linkJob, toPathOption("resource/dir/linux/x86_64/swiftrt.o"))
     }
   }