diff --git a/package/gamin/gamin.mk b/package/gamin/gamin.mk
index d691f6043a..326fd62afb 100644
--- a/package/gamin/gamin.mk
+++ b/package/gamin/gamin.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ GAMIN_SITE = http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources
 GAMIN_AUTORECONF = YES
 GAMIN_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
-GAMIN_CONF_OPT = --program-prefix="" --disable-debug
+GAMIN_CONF_OPT = --disable-debug
 
 # python support broken
 GAMIN_CONF_OPT += --without-python