diff --git a/package/sstrip/sstrip.mk b/package/sstrip/sstrip.mk
index be8c563f0..c79a50113 100644
--- a/package/sstrip/sstrip.mk
+++ b/package/sstrip/sstrip.mk
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ SSTRIP_SITE = svn://dev.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/tools/sstrip
 SSTRIP_VERSION = 20154
 HOST_SSTRIP_BINARY = $(GNU_TARGET_NAME)-sstrip
 
-# This is a kludge to get host-ccache built before us or it fails
-ifeq ($(BR2_CCACHE),y)
-HOST_SSTRIP_DEPENDENCIES = host-ccache
-endif
-
 define SSTRIP_BUILD_CMDS
 	cd $(@D) ; \
 	$(TARGET_CC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) -include endian.h -include byteswap.h \