diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
index e305180c64f..d58cbe9c1a7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ EXTRA_OECONF_PATHS = "\
 TARGET_CC_ARCH += "-fno-link-libatomic"
 SDK_CC_ARCH += "-fno-link-libatomic"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF:append:linuxstdbase = " --enable-clocale=gnu"
 EXTRA_OECONF:append = " --cache-file=${B}/config.cache"
 EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-newlib = " --with-newlib --with-target-subdir"
 EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-picolibc = " --with-newlib --with-target-subdir"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-target.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-target.inc
index 6b47c10413a..40e026f59e6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-target.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-target.inc
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ EXTRA_OECONF_PATHS = "\
     --with-build-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} \
 "
 
-EXTRA_OECONF:append:linuxstdbase = " --enable-clocale=gnu"
-
 # Configure gcc running on the target to default to an architecture which will
 # be compatible with that of gcc-runtime (which is cross compiled to be target
 # specific). For example, for ARM, ARMv6+ adds atomic instructions that may