diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils/0001-dont-unset-cflags.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils/0001-dont-unset-cflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 72f480100030..000000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils/0001-dont-unset-cflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
---- git.old/Makefile	2012-04-17 13:29:46.280435340 +0200
-+++ git/Makefile	2012-04-17 13:31:13.664433470 +0200
-@@ -77,17 +77,7 @@ INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
- INSTALL_DATA  = ${INSTALL} -m 644
- INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
- 
--# If you are running a cross compiler, you may want to set this
--# to something more interesting, like "arm-linux-".  If you want
--# to compile vs uClibc, that can be done here as well.
--CROSS = #/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/usr/bin/i386-uclibc-
--CC = $(CROSS)gcc
--LD = $(CROSS)gcc
--AR = $(CROSS)ar
--STRIP = $(CROSS)strip
--RANLIB = $(CROSS)ranlib
--HOSTCC = gcc
--
-+HOSTCC = $(BUILD_CC)
- 
- # Now we set up the build system
- #
-@@ -95,7 +85,7 @@ HOSTCC = gcc
- # set up PWD so that older versions of make will work with our build.
- PWD = $(shell pwd)
- 
--export CROSS CC AR STRIP RANLIB CFLAGS LDFLAGS LIB_OBJS
-+export CFLAGS LDFLAGS LIB_OBJS
- 
- # check if compiler option is supported
- cc-supports = ${shell if $(CC) ${1} -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(1)"; fi;}
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
index 4df67ca3eaec..0db24a82c3e1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "To make access to the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem easier for users and cpufreq userspace tools, a cpufrequtils package was created"
 
-inherit gettext
+inherit_defer ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'nls', 'gettext', '', d)}
 
 DEPENDS = "libtool-cross"
 
@@ -10,27 +10,24 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRCREV = "a2f0c39d5f21596bb9f5223e895c0ff210b265d0"
 PV .= "+git"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
-           file://0001-dont-unset-cflags.patch \
-"
+SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
 
 # Upstream repo does not tag
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
 
-EXTRA_OEMAKE:append = " ${@['', 'NLS=false']['${USE_NLS}' == 'no']} "
-
-
-
 TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
 
-EXTRA_OEMAKE = "V=1 CROSS=${TARGET_PREFIX} STRIPCMD=echo 'CP=cp'"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@oe.utils.conditional('USE_NLS', 'no', '', 'nls', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[nls] = "NLS=true,NLS=false,gettext-native"
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "V=1 CROSS=${TARGET_PREFIX} CC='${CC}' STRIPCMD=echo 'CP=cp' ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS}"
 
 do_compile() {
 	oe_runmake
 }
 
 do_install() {
-	oe_runmake -e install DESTDIR=${D}
+	oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D}
 	rm -f ${D}${libdir}/libcpufreq.so.0 ${D}${libdir}/libcpufreq.so
 	ln -s libcpufreq.so.0.0.0 ${D}${libdir}/libcpufreq.so.0
 	ln -s libcpufreq.so.0.0.0 ${D}${libdir}/libcpufreq.so