diff --git a/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk b/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
index 8e27404c66..7512509d17 100644
--- a/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/fribidi/package.mk
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-shared \
                            --disable-debug \
                            --disable-deprecated \
                            --disable-silent-rules \
-                           --enable-malloc \
                            --enable-charsets \
                            --with-gnu-ld \
                            --without-glib"