diff --git a/host-memcpy-hack.h b/host-memcpy-hack.h
deleted file mode 100644
index fa90a3361..000000000
--- a/host-memcpy-hack.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#ifdef __x86_64__
-/* 
- * Force the linker to use the older memcpy variant, so that the user programs
- * work on older systems
- */
-__asm__(".symver memcpy,memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5");
-#endif