diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/git/llvm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/git/llvm/default.nix
index e9ec6a426145..d2059cc66ba2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/git/llvm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/git/llvm/default.nix
@@ -60,12 +60,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   checkInputs = [ which ];
 
   patches = [
-    # When cross-compiling we configure llvm-config-native with an approximation
-    # of the flags used for the normal LLVM build. To avoid the need for building
-    # a native libLLVM.so (which would fail) we force llvm-config to be linked
-    # statically against the necessary LLVM components always.
-    ../../llvm-config-link-static.patch
-
     ./gnu-install-dirs.patch
   ] ++ lib.optional enablePolly ./gnu-install-dirs-polly.patch;