diff --git a/package/gdb/gdb.mk b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
index c966cdc10b..69f7979149 100644
--- a/package/gdb/gdb.mk
+++ b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
@@ -30,9 +30,7 @@ GDB_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += GDB_CONFIGURE_SYMLINK
 # For the host variant, we really want to build with XML support,
 # which is needed to read XML descriptions of target architectures. We
 # also need ncurses.
-# As for libiberty, gdb may use a system-installed one if present, so
-# we must ensure ours is installed first.
-HOST_GDB_DEPENDENCIES = host-expat host-libiberty host-ncurses host-zlib
+HOST_GDB_DEPENDENCIES = host-expat host-ncurses host-zlib
 
 # Disable building documentation
 GDB_MAKE_OPTS += MAKEINFO=true
diff --git a/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash b/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash
deleted file mode 120000
index e0655d3af3..0000000000
--- a/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../binutils/binutils.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk b/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index ac6afc44ca..0000000000
--- a/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# libiberty
-#
-################################################################################
-
-LIBIBERTY_VERSION = 2.41
-LIBIBERTY_SOURCE = binutils-$(LIBIBERTY_VERSION).tar.xz
-LIBIBERTY_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/binutils
-HOST_LIBIBERTY_DL_SUBDIR = binutils
-
-# We're only building libiberty here, not the full binutils suite
-LIBIBERTY_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
-LIBIBERTY_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LIB
-
-LIBIBERTY_SUBDIR = libiberty
-
-# We explicitly disable multilib, as we do in binutils.
-# By default, libiberty installs nothing, so we must force it.
-HOST_LIBIBERTY_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--disable-multilib \
-	--enable-install-libiberty
-
-# Some packages (e.g. host-gdb) will pick this library and build shared
-# objects with it. But libiberty does not honour the --enable-shared and
-# --disable-static flags; it only ever builds a static library no matter
-# what. So we must force -fPIC in build flags.
-HOST_LIBIBERTY_CONF_ENV = \
-	CFLAGS="$(HOST_CFLAGS) -fPIC" \
-	LDFLAGS="$(HOST_LDFLAGS) -fPIC"
-
-$(eval $(host-autotools-package))