diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go
index 5b17ef4811..2447c289c8 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go
@@ -2244,7 +2244,6 @@ func (b *Builder) ccompile(a *Action, outfile string, flags []string, file strin
 }
 
 // gccld runs the gcc linker to create an executable from a set of object files.
-// Any error output is only displayed for BuildN or BuildX.
 func (b *Builder) gccld(a *Action, objdir, outfile string, flags []string, objs []string) error {
 	p := a.Package
 	sh := b.Shell(a)
@@ -2256,47 +2255,18 @@ func (b *Builder) gccld(a *Action, objdir, outfile string, flags []string, objs
 	}
 
 	cmdargs := []any{cmd, "-o", outfile, objs, flags}
-	out, err := sh.runOut(base.Cwd(), b.cCompilerEnv(), cmdargs...)
+	_, err := sh.runOut(base.Cwd(), b.cCompilerEnv(), cmdargs...)
 
-	if len(out) > 0 {
-		// Filter out useless linker warnings caused by bugs outside Go.
-		// See also cmd/link/internal/ld's hostlink method.
-		var save [][]byte
-		var skipLines int
-		for _, line := range bytes.SplitAfter(out, []byte("\n")) {
-			// golang.org/issue/26073 - Apple Xcode bug
-			if bytes.Contains(line, []byte("ld: warning: text-based stub file")) {
-				continue
-			}
-
-			if skipLines > 0 {
-				skipLines--
-				continue
-			}
-
-			// Remove duplicate main symbol with runtime/cgo on AIX.
-			// With runtime/cgo, two main are available:
-			// One is generated by cgo tool with {return 0;}.
-			// The other one is the main calling runtime.rt0_go
-			// in runtime/cgo.
-			// The second can't be used by cgo programs because
-			// runtime.rt0_go is unknown to them.
-			// Therefore, we let ld remove this main version
-			// and used the cgo generated one.
-			if p.ImportPath == "runtime/cgo" && bytes.Contains(line, []byte("ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: .main")) {
-				skipLines = 1
-				continue
-			}
-
-			save = append(save, line)
-		}
-		out = bytes.Join(save, nil)
-	}
 	// Note that failure is an expected outcome here, so we report output only
 	// in debug mode and don't report the error.
 	if cfg.BuildN || cfg.BuildX {
-		sh.reportCmd("", "", out, nil)
+		saw := "succeeded"
+		if err != nil {
+			saw = "failed"
+		}
+		sh.ShowCmd("", "%s # test for internal linking errors (%s)", joinUnambiguously(str.StringList(cmdargs...)), saw)
 	}
+
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/cgo_undef.txt b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/cgo_undef.txt
index 30034fbac1..8e84f1d6b5 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/cgo_undef.txt
+++ b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/cgo_undef.txt
@@ -23,10 +23,18 @@
 cc -c -o a/b.syso b/b.c
 cc -c -o b/lib.o b/lib.c
 exec ar rc a/libb.a b/lib.o
+
 go build
+! stderr 'undefined reference'
+
 ! go build -ldflags=-linkmode=internal
 stderr 'some packages could not be built to support internal linking.*m/c|requires external linking|does not support internal cgo'
 
+# Test for issue #68743.
+go build -x m/d
+! stderr 'undefined reference'
+stderr 'test for internal linking'
+
 -- go.mod --
 module m
 
@@ -58,6 +66,19 @@ func Fn(i int) (int, int) {
      return a.GoFn(i), int(C.D(C.int(i)))
 }
 
+-- d/d.go --
+// Package d is a copy of package c, to build with -x.
+package d
+
+// static int D(int i) { return i; }
+import "C"
+
+import "m/a"
+
+func Fn(i int) (int, int) {
+     return a.GoFn(i), int(C.D(C.int(i)))
+}
+
 -- main.go --
 package main