diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8e3fc546f..d7a7fd513 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -140,15 +140,9 @@ before_install:
       export CXXCOMPILER='clang++'
       ./third_party/mason/mason install clang++ ${CLANG_VERSION}
       export PATH=$(./third_party/mason/mason prefix clang++ ${CLANG_VERSION})/bin:${PATH}
+      export CMAKE_EXTRA="-DCMAKE_AR=$(which llvm-ar) -DCMAKE_RANLIB=$(which llvm-ranlib)"
       ./third_party/mason/mason install binutils 2.27
       export PATH=$(./third_party/mason/mason prefix binutils 2.27)/bin:${PATH}
-      which ld
-      ./third_party/mason/mason install llvm ${CLANG_VERSION}
-      export PATH=$(./third_party/mason/mason prefix llvm ${CLANG_VERSION})/bin:${PATH}
-      which llvm-ar
-      which llvm-ranlib
-      which llvm-nm
-      export CMAKE_EXTRA="-DCMAKE_AR=$(which llvm-ar) -DCMAKE_RANLIB=$(which llvm-ranlib)"
     fi
   - ccache --max-size=256M  # limiting the cache's size to roughly the previous job's object sizes