diff --git a/lang/gcc32/Makefile b/lang/gcc32/Makefile
index fe8d4b92b26b..1831681760b2 100644
--- a/lang/gcc32/Makefile
+++ b/lang/gcc32/Makefile
@@ -126,15 +126,9 @@ pre-patch:
 .endif
 
 pre-configure:
-	@# Keep from running `autoconf' and `autoheader' since we modified
-	@# configure.in by patching it.
-	@${TOUCH} ${SRCDIR}/gcc/configure
-	@${TOUCH} ${SRCDIR}/gcc/cstamp-h.in
-	@${MKDIR} ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC}
-	@${RM} -f ${SRCDIR}/gcc/*/*.info*
-
-pre-build:
 	cd ${SRCDIR} ; contrib/gcc_update --touch
+	@${RM} -f ${SRCDIR}/gcc/*/*.info*
+	@${MKDIR} ${CONFIGURE_WRKSRC}
 
 post-build:
 	@echo "Consider running 'make check' before 'make install',"
diff --git a/lang/gcc32/files/patch-va b/lang/gcc32/files/patch-va
deleted file mode 100644
index 78ea20004cd4..000000000000
--- a/lang/gcc32/files/patch-va
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- gcc/Makefile.in.orig	Thu May 23 10:57:21 2002
-+++ gcc/Makefile.in	Tue Sep 10 19:52:35 2002
-@@ -858,3 +855,3 @@
- $(srcdir)/configure: @MAINT@ $(srcdir)/configure.in
--	(cd $(srcdir) && autoconf)
-+	(cd $(srcdir) && echo "wants to run autoconf, blah")
- 
-@@ -880,3 +877,3 @@
- @MAINT@ $(srcdir)/cstamp-h.in: $(srcdir)/configure.in $(srcdir)/acconfig.h
--@MAINT@	(cd $(srcdir) && autoheader)
-+@MAINT@	(cd $(srcdir) && echo "wants to run autoheader, blah")
- @MAINT@	@rm -f $(srcdir)/cstamp-h.in