diff --git a/package/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop.mk b/package/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop.mk
index 81b13c079c..9054dd80c6 100644
--- a/package/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop.mk
+++ b/package/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop.mk
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ MATCHBOX_DESKTOP_SITE = http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/matchbox/matc
 MATCHBOX_DESKTOP_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 MATCHBOX_DESKTOP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 MATCHBOX_DESKTOP_DEPENDENCIES = matchbox-lib zlib
-MATCHBOX_DESKTOP_CONF_OPTS = --enable-expat
 
 # The bundled configure script does not properly replace LIBADD_DL, so
 # we force an autoreconf even if we don't have any patches touching