diff --git a/tce/autogen.sh b/tce/autogen.sh
index a196fd52c..5bce9bab3 100755
--- a/tce/autogen.sh
+++ b/tce/autogen.sh
@@ -1552,8 +1552,6 @@ if [ "x$config" = "x" ] ; then
     $VERBOSE_ECHO "Could not locate the configure template (from `pwd`)"
 fi
 
-patch -p0 < ltmain.sh.patch || true
-
 # summarize
 $ECHO "done"
 $ECHO
diff --git a/tce/ltmain.sh.patch b/tce/ltmain.sh.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cd71b9df1..000000000
--- a/tce/ltmain.sh.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-At least Ubuntu 18.04's libtoolize generates wrapper
-scripts which _prepend_ the system path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
-causing the system's libllvm to be found before the user's
-own installed LLVM (overridden using LB_LIBRARY_PATH).
-
-This patches it such that the path is appended to the path
-instead.
-
---- ltmain.sh.orig	2019-07-13 12:06:11.050523601 +0300
-+++ ltmain.sh	2019-07-13 12:06:46.427026644 +0300
-@@ -5479,7 +5479,7 @@
- 	if test yes = "$shlibpath_overrides_runpath" && test -n "$shlibpath_var" && test -n "$temp_rpath"; then
- 	  $ECHO "\
-     # Add our own library path to $shlibpath_var
--    $shlibpath_var=\"$temp_rpath\$$shlibpath_var\"
-+    $shlibpath_var=\"\$$shlibpath_var:$temp_rpath\"
- 
-     # Some systems cannot cope with colon-terminated $shlibpath_var
-     # The second colon is a workaround for a bug in BeOS R4 sed