diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/build b/packages/devel/gettext/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 5b4f281597..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
-    cp gettext-runtime/m4/*.m4 $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/meta b/packages/devel/gettext/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 517ed2b647..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-PKG_NAME="gettext"
-PKG_VERSION="0.18.1.1"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="devel"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="gettext: A program internationalization library and tools"
-PKG_LONGDESC="This is the GNU gettext package. It is interesting for authors or maintainers of other packages or programs which they want to see internationalized. As one step the handling of messages in different languages should be implemented. For this task GNU gettext provides the needed tools and library functions."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/intltool/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/intltool/meta
index 4e302a0861..653950b9b0 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/intltool/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/intltool/meta
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnome.org"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.40/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache gettext"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="intltool: Gnome international tools"