diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
index b8cbdc0cfa3..82be84e1f1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   patches = [
-    # prelink-rtld, which we use for cross returns 127 when it can't find a library.
-    # https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/tree/package/gobject-introspection/0003-giscanner-ignore-error-return-codes-from-ldd-wrapper.patch
-    ./giscanner-ignore-error-return-codes-from-ldd-wrapper.patch
     # Make g-ir-scanner put absolute path to GIR files it generates
     # so that programs can just dlopen them without having to muck
     # with LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/giscanner-ignore-error-return-codes-from-ldd-wrapper.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/giscanner-ignore-error-return-codes-from-ldd-wrapper.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fdcec4bc88c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/giscanner-ignore-error-return-codes-from-ldd-wrapper.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-From e0fc4a2a5161a36483ddc518be9bb14390f11b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:46:52 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] giscanner: ignore error return codes from ldd-wrapper
-
-prelink-rtld, which we use instead of ldd returns 127 when it can't find a library.
-It is not an error per se, but it breaks subprocess.check_output().
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [oe-core specific]
-Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
-Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
----
- giscanner/shlibs.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/giscanner/shlibs.py b/giscanner/shlibs.py
-index 9f8ab5df..7a1a72fe 100644
---- a/giscanner/shlibs.py
-+++ b/giscanner/shlibs.py
-@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def _resolve_non_libtool(options, binary, libraries):
-             args.extend(['otool', '-L', binary.args[0]])
-         else:
-             args.extend(['ldd', binary.args[0]])
--        output = subprocess.check_output(args)
-+        output = subprocess.run(args, check=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
-         if isinstance(output, bytes):
-             output = output.decode("utf-8", "replace")
-
---
-2.25.1