diff --git a/emacs-sparc.diff b/emacs-sparc.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 426ba23..0000000
--- a/emacs-sparc.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
- configure.in |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Index: emacs-23.1/configure.in
-===================================================================
---- emacs-23.1.orig/configure.in
-+++ emacs-23.1/configure.in
-@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ dnl see the `changequote' comment above.
-   ;;
- 
-   ## Suns
--  sparc-*-linux* | sparc64-*-linux* )
-+  sparc*-*-linux* )
-     machine=sparc opsys=gnu-linux
-   ;;
- 
diff --git a/emacs.changes b/emacs.changes
index bfbb3ba..6f945f6 100644
--- a/emacs.changes
+++ b/emacs.changes
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-Fri Dec 18 13:33:01 CET 2009 - jengelh@medozas.de
-
-- Make ./configure --target=sparcv9-suse-linux work (as a result of
-  rpmbuild --target=sparcv9)
-
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec  1 15:18:04 CET 2009 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index bf85f93..637e2fd 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ Patch14:        emacs-23.1-bnc556175.patch
 Patch15:        emacs-22.2-iconic.patch
 Patch16:        emacs-23.1-flyspell.patch
 Patch17:        emacs-23.1-bnc558884.patch
-Patch18:	emacs-sparc.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %global bug_345669  0
 %{expand: %%global _exec_prefix %(type -p pkg-config &>/dev/null && pkg-config --variable prefix x11 || echo /usr/X11R6)}
@@ -241,7 +240,6 @@ Authors:
 if test ! -e $HOME/.mh_profile && type -p install-mh > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     install-mh -auto < /dev/null
 fi
-%patch -P 18 -p1
 
 %build
 cflags ()