diff --git a/llvm/autoconf/configure.ac b/llvm/autoconf/configure.ac
index dbb128f7c377..da583cac4d2c 100644
--- a/llvm/autoconf/configure.ac
+++ b/llvm/autoconf/configure.ac
@@ -159,14 +159,6 @@ case $llvm_cv_platform_type in
     ;;
 esac
 
-dnl If we are targetting a Sparc machine running Solaris, pretend that it is
-dnl V9, since that is all that we support at the moment, and autoconf will only
-dnl tell us we're a sparc.
-case $target in
-  sparc*-*-solaris*)  AC_SUBST(target,[[sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8]])
-  ;;
-esac
-
 dnl Determine what our target architecture is and configure accordingly.
 dnl This will allow Makefiles to make a distinction between the hardware and
 dnl the OS.