diff --git a/package/lame/lame.mk b/package/lame/lame.mk
index 7eb9e2fafd..e47e0af1ff 100644
--- a/package/lame/lame.mk
+++ b/package/lame/lame.mk
@@ -17,11 +17,9 @@ LAME_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 # Building lame with debug symbols needs the following macros to be
 # defined: _FPU_MASK_IM, _FPU_MASK_ZM, _FPU_MASK_OM.
 # So, if BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG is selected, then we have force lame to be
-# built without debug symbols because these architectures don't have
-# those macros defined.
-ifeq ($(BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG)$(BR2_aarch64)$(BR2_arm)$(BR2_armeb)$(BR2_mips)$(BR2_mipsel)$(BR2_mips64)$(BR2_mips64el)$(BR2_xtensa),yy)
+# built without debug symbols because a number of architectures don't
+# have those macros defined.
 LAME_CONF_OPTS += --disable-debug
-endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSNDFILE),y)
 LAME_DEPENDENCIES += libsndfile