diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
index c30242d41a..6c60cf97f6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
     ${@get_gcc_multiarch_setting(bb, d)} \
 "
 
-export ac_cv_path_SED = 'sed'
 export gcc_cv_collect2_libs = 'none required'
 # We need to set gcc_cv_collect2_libs else there is cross-compilation badness
 # in the config.log files (which might not get generated until do_compile