diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/0006-automake-Remove-delays-in-configure-scripts-using-au.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/0006-automake-Remove-delays-in-configure-scripts-using-au.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e5e39169b6f..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake/0006-automake-Remove-delays-in-configure-scripts-using-au.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-From b43c0ccd1d98a43c0ddcade40fa288e98d381420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 18:28:05 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH 6/6] automake: Remove delays in configure scripts using
- automake
-
-By default automake puts "sleep 1" into the start of configure scripts
-which adds pointless delays to them. Rather than do this, lets just assume
-our systems are sane.
-
-RP
-2015/12/7
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
----
- m4/sanity.m4 | 48 +-----------------------------------------------
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 47 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/m4/sanity.m4 b/m4/sanity.m4
-index c7f32da..f25625a 100644
---- a/m4/sanity.m4
-+++ b/m4/sanity.m4
-@@ -176,51 +176,5 @@ case $srcdir in
-     AC_MSG_ERROR([unsafe srcdir value: '$srcdir']);;
- esac
- 
--# Do 'set' in a subshell so we don't clobber the current shell's
--# arguments.  Must try -L first in case configure is actually a
--# symlink; some systems play weird games with the mod time of symlinks
--# (eg FreeBSD returns the mod time of the symlink's containing
--# directory).
--am_build_env_is_sane=no
--am_has_slept=no
--rm -f conftest.file
--for am_try in 1 2; do
--  echo "timestamp, slept: $am_has_slept" > conftest.file
--  if (
--    set X `ls -Lt "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file 2> /dev/null`
--    if test "$[]*" = "X"; then
--      # -L didn't work.
--      set X `ls -t "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file`
--    fi
--    test "$[]2" = conftest.file
--  ); then
--    am_build_env_is_sane=yes
--    break
--  fi
--  # Just in case.
--  sleep "$am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution"
--  am_has_slept=yes
--done
--
--AC_MSG_RESULT([$am_build_env_is_sane])
--if test "$am_build_env_is_sane" = no; then
--  AC_MSG_ERROR([newly created file is older than distributed files!
--Check your system clock])
--fi
--
--# If we didn't sleep, we still need to ensure time stamps of config.status and
--# generated files are strictly newer.
--am_sleep_pid=
--AS_IF([test -e conftest.file || grep 'slept: no' conftest.file >/dev/null 2>&1],, [dnl
--  ( sleep "$am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution" ) &
--  am_sleep_pid=$!
--])
--AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE(
--  [AC_MSG_CHECKING([that generated files are newer than configure])
--   if test -n "$am_sleep_pid"; then
--     # Hide warnings about reused PIDs.
--     wait $am_sleep_pid 2>/dev/null
--   fi
--   AC_MSG_RESULT([done])])
--rm -f conftest.file
-+AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
- ])
--- 
-2.39.2
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.19.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.19.bb
index aaf3ab9a6f5..ac99268ab34 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.19.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.19.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/automake/automake-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://0002-automake-Update-for-python.m4-to-respect-libdir.patch \
            file://0004-Add-a-new-distro-feature-ptest.patch \
-           file://0006-automake-Remove-delays-in-configure-scripts-using-au.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "79e8b1f7a967e87ce8a9ded76bee7f793d0ce1886ab2002feb1b0510f578b75a"