diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils/0001-local.mk-fix-cross-compiling-problem.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils/0001-local.mk-fix-cross-compiling-problem.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 97a6357ab9..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils/0001-local.mk-fix-cross-compiling-problem.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-From 7cb2d20cfa2a27191255031d231cd41917dcffe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:10:35 +0800
-Subject: [PATCH] local.mk: fix cross compiling problem
-
-We meet the following error when cross compiling.
-| Makefile:3418: *** Recursive variable 'INSTALL' references itself (eventually).  Stop.
-This patch fixes this problem.
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
----
- src/local.mk | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/local.mk b/src/local.mk
-index 96ee941..cdd47d6 100644
---- a/src/local.mk
-+++ b/src/local.mk
-@@ -704,4 +704,4 @@ cu_install_program = @INSTALL@
- else
- cu_install_program = src/ginstall
- endif
--INSTALL = $(cu_install_program) -c
-+INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(cu_install_program)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.6.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.6.bb
index 3eb0c6fd1b..a966c4b448 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.6.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ inherit autotools gettext texinfo
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/coreutils/${BP}.tar.xz \
            file://remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch \
-           file://0001-local.mk-fix-cross-compiling-problem.patch \
            file://intermittent-testfailure.patch \
            file://0001-ls-fix-crash-with-context.patch \
            file://0001-cksum-port-to-32-bit-uint_fast32_t.patch \
@@ -184,7 +183,6 @@ RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dev += "${DEVDEPS}"
 do_install_ptest () {
     install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
     cp -r ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
-    sed -i 's/ginstall/install/g'  `grep -R ginstall ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests | awk -F: '{print $1}' | uniq`
     install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/build-aux
     install ${S}/build-aux/test-driver ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/build-aux/
     install -Dm 0644 ${B}/lib/config.h ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/lib/config.h
@@ -198,7 +196,6 @@ do_install_ptest () {
     sed -i '/^abs_srcdir/s/= .*$/= \$\{PWD\}/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     sed -i '/^abs_top_builddir/s/= .*$/= \$\{PWD\}/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     sed -i '/^abs_top_srcdir/s/= .*$/= \$\{PWD\}/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
-    sed -i '/^built_programs/s/ginstall/install/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     sed -i '/^CC =/s/ --sysroot=.*recipe-sysroot/ /g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     sed -i '/^BUILD_LDFLAGS =/d' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     chmod -R 777 ${D}${PTEST_PATH}