diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/gnulib-longdouble-redirect.patch b/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/gnulib-longdouble-redirect.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f684292dc8bd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/gnulib-longdouble-redirect.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-
-Below is the subset of gnulib commit
-776af40e09b476a41073131a90022572f448c189 which deals with long double
-redirects.  The rest of that commit has been removed.
-
-diff --git a/lib/cdefs.h b/lib/cdefs.h
-index fd72b7b..4383e70 100644
---- a/lib/cdefs.h
-+++ b/lib/cdefs.h
-@@ -483,7 +493,37 @@
- # include <bits/long-double.h>
- #endif
- 
--#if defined __LONG_DOUBLE_MATH_OPTIONAL && defined __NO_LONG_DOUBLE_MATH
-+#if __LDOUBLE_REDIRECTS_TO_FLOAT128_ABI == 1
-+# ifdef __REDIRECT
-+
-+/* Alias name defined automatically.  */
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR(name, proto) ... unused__ldbl_redir
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR_DECL(name) \
-+  extern __typeof (name) name __asm (__ASMNAME ("__" #name "ieee128"));
-+
-+/* Alias name defined automatically, with leading underscores.  */
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR2_DECL(name) \
-+  extern __typeof (__##name) __##name \
-+    __asm (__ASMNAME ("__" #name "ieee128"));
-+
-+/* Alias name defined manually.  */
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR1(name, proto, alias) ... unused__ldbl_redir1
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR1_DECL(name, alias) \
-+  extern __typeof (name) name __asm (__ASMNAME (#alias));
-+
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH(name, proto, alias) \
-+  __REDIRECT_NTH (name, proto, alias)
-+#  define __REDIRECT_NTH_LDBL(name, proto, alias) \
-+  __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH (name, proto, __##alias##ieee128)
-+
-+/* Unused.  */
-+#  define __REDIRECT_LDBL(name, proto, alias) ... unused__redirect_ldbl
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR_NTH(name, proto) ... unused__ldbl_redir_nth
-+
-+# else
-+_Static_assert (0, "IEEE 128-bits long double requires redirection on this platform");
-+# endif
-+#elif defined __LONG_DOUBLE_MATH_OPTIONAL && defined __NO_LONG_DOUBLE_MATH
- # define __LDBL_COMPAT 1
- # ifdef __REDIRECT
- #  define __LDBL_REDIR1(name, proto, alias) __REDIRECT (name, proto, alias)
-@@ -492,6 +532,8 @@
- #  define __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH(name, proto, alias) __REDIRECT_NTH (name, proto, alias)
- #  define __LDBL_REDIR_NTH(name, proto) \
-   __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH (name, proto, __nldbl_##name)
-+#  define __LDBL_REDIR2_DECL(name) \
-+  extern __typeof (__##name) __##name __asm (__ASMNAME ("__nldbl___" #name));
- #  define __LDBL_REDIR1_DECL(name, alias) \
-   extern __typeof (name) name __asm (__ASMNAME (#alias));
- #  define __LDBL_REDIR_DECL(name) \
-@@ -502,11 +544,13 @@
-   __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH (name, proto, __nldbl_##alias)
- # endif
- #endif
--#if !defined __LDBL_COMPAT || !defined __REDIRECT
-+#if (!defined __LDBL_COMPAT && __LDOUBLE_REDIRECTS_TO_FLOAT128_ABI == 0) \
-+    || !defined __REDIRECT
- # define __LDBL_REDIR1(name, proto, alias) name proto
- # define __LDBL_REDIR(name, proto) name proto
- # define __LDBL_REDIR1_NTH(name, proto, alias) name proto __THROW
- # define __LDBL_REDIR_NTH(name, proto) name proto __THROW
-+# define __LDBL_REDIR2_DECL(name)
- # define __LDBL_REDIR_DECL(name)
- # ifdef __REDIRECT
- #  define __REDIRECT_LDBL(name, proto, alias) __REDIRECT (name, proto, alias)
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/package.nix
index 73fce1a75848..37f75abb5e36 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gn/gnulib/package.nix
@@ -34,17 +34,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # do not change headers to not update all vendored build files
   dontFixup = true;
 
-  passthru = {
-    # This patch is used by multiple other packages (currently:
-    # gnused, gettext) which contain vendored copies of gnulib.
-    # Without it, compilation will fail with error messages about
-    # "__LDBL_REDIR1_DECL" or similar on platforms with longdouble
-    # redirects (currently powerpc64).  Once all of those other
-    # packages make a release with a newer gnulib we can drop this
-    # patch.
-    longdouble-redirect-patch = ./gnulib-longdouble-redirect.patch;
-  };
-
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Central location for code to be shared among GNU packages";
     homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/";