Use gold and the bundled binutils on x86 by default

build/config/compiler/BUILD.gn

 # Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 import("//build/config/android/config.gni")
 import("//build/config/chrome_build.gni")
 import("//build/config/compiler/compiler.gni")
 import("//build/config/nacl/config.gni")
 import("//build/toolchain/cc_wrapper.gni")
 import("//build/toolchain/toolchain.gni")
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   treat_warnings_as_errors = true
 
   # Normally, Android builds are lightly optimized, even for debug builds, to
   # keep binary size down. Setting this flag to true disables such optimization
   android_full_debug = false
 
   # Whether to use the binary binutils checked into third_party/binutils.
   # These are not multi-arch so cannot be used except on x86 and x86-64 (the
   # only two architectures that are currently checked in). Turn this off when
   # you are using a custom toolchain and need to control -B in cflags.
-  linux_use_bundled_binutils = is_linux && current_cpu == "x64"
+  linux_use_bundled_binutils =
+      is_linux && (current_cpu == "x64" || current_cpu == "x86")
   binutils_path = rebase_path("//third_party/binutils/Linux_x64/Release/bin",
                               root_build_dir)
 
   # Compile in such a way as to make it possible for the profiler to unwind full
   # stack frames. Setting this flag has a large effect on the performance of the
   # generated code than just setting profiling, but gives the profiler more
   # information to analyze.
   # Requires profiling to be set to true.
   enable_full_stack_frames_for_profiling = false
 
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 if (is_ios || is_mac) {
   # On Mac and iOS, this enables support for ARC (automatic ref-counting).
   # See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html.
   config("enable_arc") {
     common_flags = [ "-fobjc-arc" ]
     cflags_objc = common_flags
     cflags_objcc = common_flags
   }
 }