diff --git a/net-irc/atheme/files/atheme-5.0.1-with-ldap.patch b/net-irc/atheme/files/atheme-5.0.1-with-ldap.patch
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/net-irc/atheme/files/atheme-5.0.1-with-ldap.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-diff -r 75af206b48cc -r 7c91655f0352 configure.ac
---- a/configure.ac	Thu Feb 11 23:13:59 2010 -0500
-+++ b/configure.ac	Thu Feb 11 23:35:12 2010 -0500
-@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@
- 
- AC_SUBST(POSIX_CRYPTC)
- 
-+AC_ARG_WITH([ldap],
-+	[AS_HELP_STRING([--without-ldap],[Disable building ldap auth module.])],
-+	[],
-+	[with_ldap="auto"])
-+
-+AS_IF([test "x$with_ldap" != "xno"],
-+[
- # Thank autoconf and openldap developers for making me do all this stuff.
- LDAP_CFLAGS=""
- LDAP_LIBS=""
-@@ -108,6 +115,11 @@
- 	CFLAGS="$saveCFLAGS"
- 	LIBS="$saveLIBS"
- ])
-+dnl with_ldap != no
-+])
-+
-+AS_IF([test "x$with_ldap" = "xyes" && test "x$LDAP_AUTHC" = "x"],
-+[AC_MSG_ERROR([LDAP support was explicitly requested but could not be found.])])
- 
- AC_SUBST(LDAP_CFLAGS)
- AC_SUBST(LDAP_LIBS)