diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/rt/rtorrent/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/rt/rtorrent/package.nix
index 5afa2ced4c56..66c431dbfd79 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/rt/rtorrent/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/rt/rtorrent/package.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   fetchpatch,
   installShellFiles,
-  libsigcxx,
   libtool,
   libtorrent,
   ncurses,
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [
     cppunit
     curl
-    libsigcxx
     libtool
     libtorrent
     ncurses