diff --git a/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk b/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
index f199012986..26b24d742a 100644
--- a/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
+++ b/packages/devel/glibc/package.mk
@@ -45,13 +45,6 @@ post_unpack() {
   find "${PKG_BUILD}" -type f -name '*.py' -exec sed -e '1s,^#![[:space:]]*/usr/bin/python.*,#!/usr/bin/env python3,' -i {} \;
 }
 
-pre_build_target() {
-  cd ${PKG_BUILD}
-    aclocal --force --verbose
-    autoconf --force --verbose
-  cd -
-}
-
 pre_configure_target() {
 # Filter out some problematic *FLAGS
   export CFLAGS=$(echo ${CFLAGS} | sed -e "s|-ffast-math||g")