Revert of Linux: Enable multi-threading with the gold linker.

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")
 if (cpu_arch == "arm") {
   import("//build/config/arm.gni")
 }
 if (cpu_arch == "mipsel" || cpu_arch == "mips64el") {
   import("//build/config/mips.gni")
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       "-fuse-ld=gold",
 
       # TODO(brettw) common.gypi has this only for target toolset.
       "-Wl,--icf=safe",
 
       # Experimentation found that using four linking threads
       # saved ~20% of link time.
       # https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/281527606915bb36
       # Only apply this to the target linker, since the host
       # linker might not be gold, but isn't used much anyway.
-      "-Wl,--threads",
-      "-Wl,--thread-count=4",
+      # TODO(raymes): Disable threading because gold is frequently
+      # crashing on the bots: crbug.com/161942.
+      #"-Wl,--threads",
+      #"-Wl,--thread-count=4",
     ]
   }
 
   if (linux_use_bundled_binutils) {
     binutils_path = rebase_path("//third_party/binutils/Linux_x64/Release/bin",
                                 root_build_dir)
     cflags += [ "-B$binutils_path" ]
   }
 
   # Clang-specific compiler flags setup.
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       cflags += [ "-gsplit-dwarf" ]
     }
   }
 }
 
 config("no_symbols") {
   if (!is_win) {
     cflags = [ "-g0" ]
   }
 }