diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
index ca34660a6f..bb2a0f96df 100644
--- a/package/Makefile.in
+++ b/package/Makefile.in
@@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ HOST_CFLAGS   += $(HOST_CPPFLAGS)
 HOST_CXXFLAGS += $(HOST_CFLAGS)
 HOST_LDFLAGS  += -L$(HOST_DIR)/lib -L$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib
 
-# hostcc version as an integer - E.G. 4.3.2 => 432
-HOSTCC_VERSION := $(shell $(HOSTCC_NOCCACHE) --version | \
-	sed -n 's/^.* \([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)[ ]*.*$$/\1\2\3/p')
-
 # host-intltool should be executed with the system perl, so we save
 # the path to the system perl, before a host-perl built by Buildroot
 # might get installed into $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin and therefore appears