diff --git a/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk b/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
index b47c6b9b2e..35fe2bdbe5 100644
--- a/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
+++ b/package/mesa3d/mesa3d.mk
@@ -54,14 +54,6 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_NEEDS_ELFUTILS),y)
 MESA3D_DEPENDENCIES += elfutils
 endif
 
-# The Sourcery MIPS toolchain has a special (non-upstream) feature to
-# have "compact exception handling", which unfortunately breaks with
-# mesa3d, so we disable it here by passing -mno-compact-eh.
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_MIPS),y)
-MESA3D_CONF_ENV += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -mno-compact-eh"
-MESA3D_CONF_ENV += CXXFLAGS="$(TARGET_CXXFLAGS) -mno-compact-eh"
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_GLX),y)
 # Disable-mangling not yet supported by meson build system.
 # glx: