diff --git a/llvm/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
index 10fc8499a92ea8..4a7639c51121d9 100644
--- a/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -969,16 +969,6 @@ if (UNIX AND ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "SunOS")
           add_definitions("-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64")
 endif()
 
-# Work around a broken bfd ld behavior. When linking a binary with a
-# foo.so library, it will try to find any library that foo.so uses and
-# check its symbols. This is wasteful (the check was done when foo.so
-# was created) and can fail since it is not the dynamic linker and
-# doesn't know how to handle search paths correctly.
-if (UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND NOT CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "SunOS|AIX|OS390")
-  set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS
-      "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -Wl,-allow-shlib-undefined")
-endif()
-
 set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
 
 include_directories( ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIR} ${LLVM_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR})