diff --git a/libcxx/src/CMakeLists.txt b/libcxx/src/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/libcxx/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libcxx/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -231,18 +231,6 @@
   if(COMMAND llvm_setup_rpath)
     llvm_setup_rpath(cxx_shared)
   endif()
-  cxx_link_system_libraries(cxx_shared)
-  target_link_libraries(cxx_shared PRIVATE ${LIBCXX_LIBRARIES})
-  set_target_properties(cxx_shared
-    PROPERTIES
-      COMPILE_FLAGS "${LIBCXX_COMPILE_FLAGS}"
-      LINK_FLAGS    "${LIBCXX_LINK_FLAGS}"
-      OUTPUT_NAME   "c++"
-      VERSION       "${LIBCXX_ABI_VERSION}.0"
-      SOVERSION     "${LIBCXX_ABI_VERSION}"
-      DEFINE_SYMBOL ""
-  )
-  cxx_set_common_defines(cxx_shared)
 
   # Link against LLVM libunwind
   if (LIBCXXABI_USE_LLVM_UNWINDER)
@@ -269,6 +257,22 @@
     list(APPEND LIBCXX_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES "${LIBCXX_CXX_SHARED_ABI_LIBRARY}") # For the linker script
   endif()
 
+  # Link system libraries after libunwind & libc++abi so that
+  # local libunwind & libc++abi have higher precedence than their counterparts
+  # in system lib.
+  cxx_link_system_libraries(cxx_shared)
+  target_link_libraries(cxx_shared PRIVATE ${LIBCXX_LIBRARIES})
+  set_target_properties(cxx_shared
+    PROPERTIES
+      COMPILE_FLAGS "${LIBCXX_COMPILE_FLAGS}"
+      LINK_FLAGS    "${LIBCXX_LINK_FLAGS}"
+      OUTPUT_NAME   "c++"
+      VERSION       "${LIBCXX_ABI_VERSION}.0"
+      SOVERSION     "${LIBCXX_ABI_VERSION}"
+      DEFINE_SYMBOL ""
+  )
+  cxx_set_common_defines(cxx_shared)
+
   # Maybe re-export symbols from libc++abi
   if (APPLE AND (LIBCXX_CXX_ABI_LIBNAME STREQUAL "libcxxabi" OR
                  LIBCXX_CXX_ABI_LIBNAME STREQUAL "default")