diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/separate-rpath-arg.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/separate-rpath-arg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f25aa1f898..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/separate-rpath-arg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur gobject-introspection-1.46.0-orig/giscanner/ccompiler.py gobject-introspection-1.46.0/giscanner/ccompiler.py
---- gobject-introspection-1.46.0-orig/giscanner/ccompiler.py	2016-02-01 12:25:41.000000000 -0500
-+++ gobject-introspection-1.46.0/giscanner/ccompiler.py	2016-02-01 12:26:52.000000000 -0500
-@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
-                     self.compiler.add_runtime_library_dir('.')
- 
-                 # https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625195
--                args.append('-Wl,-rpath=.')
-+                args.append('-Wl,-rpath,.')
- 
-                 # Ensure libraries are always linked as we are going to use ldd to work
-                 # out their names later
-@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
-                 for library_path in libpaths:
-                     args.append('-L' + library_path)
-                     if os.path.isabs(library_path):
--                        args.append('-Wl,-rpath=' + library_path)
-+                        args.append('-Wl,-rpath,' + library_path)
- 
-         else:
-             # libtool case: assemble linker command arguments, like we did before