diff --git a/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm/ldflags.patch b/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm/ldflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cba6bfd..0000000
--- a/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm/ldflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
----
- Makefile.in |    4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
---- gdbm-1.8.3.orig/Makefile.in
-+++ gdbm-1.8.3/Makefile.in
-@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ install-compat:
- 
- libgdbm.la: $(LOBJS) gdbm.h
- 	rm -f libgdbm.la
--	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) -o libgdbm.la -rpath $(libdir) \
-+	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o libgdbm.la -rpath $(libdir) \
- 		-version-info $(SHLIB_VER) $(LOBJS)
- 
- libgdbm_compat.la: $(C_LOBJS) gdbm.h
- 	rm -f libgdbm_compat.la
--	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) -o libgdbm_compat.la -rpath $(libdir) \
-+	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o libgdbm_compat.la -rpath $(libdir) \
- 		-version-info $(SHLIB_VER) $(C_LOBJS)
- 
- gdbm.h:	gdbm.proto gdbmerrno.h gdbm.proto2
diff --git a/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bbappend b/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index de3e499..0000000
--- a/core/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/gdbm:"
-SRC_URI += "file://ldflags.patch"