diff --git a/dev-libs/xalan-c/xalan-c-1.11.0_pre1153059.ebuild b/dev-libs/xalan-c/xalan-c-1.11.0_pre1153059.ebuild
index acbb8a191dbe..d2c5706a5ed7 100644
--- a/dev-libs/xalan-c/xalan-c-1.11.0_pre1153059.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/xalan-c/xalan-c-1.11.0_pre1153059.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI="4"
 
-inherit toolchain-funcs eutils flag-o-matic multilib
+inherit toolchain-funcs eutils multilib
 
 DESCRIPTION="XSLT processor for transforming XML into HTML, text, or other XML types"
 HOMEPAGE="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/"
@@ -62,12 +62,9 @@ src_configure() {
 	local thread="none"
 	use threads && thread="pthread"
 
-	local bitstobuild="32"
-	$(has_m64) && bitstobuild="64"
-
 	./runConfigure -p ${target} -c "$(tc-getCC)" -x "$(tc-getCXX)" \
 		-m ${mloader} -t ${transcoder} \
-		-r ${thread} -b ${bitstobuild} > configure.vars || die "runConfigure failed"
+		-r ${thread} > configure.vars || die "runConfigure failed"
 
 	eval $(grep export configure.vars)