diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
index b34c4b374e1f92a14f2e01c8ed8f168b192d6056..cbd27ebb2bc37eb1cc4497d0608b04518c29271d 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
+++ b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin.inc
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "81aff570966cb99d6305881cce6a645080a9778380e7fc2e67a33ac972
 
 SRC_URI += "\
     file://0001-CATKIN_WORKSPACES-Don-t-require-.catkin-file.patch \
-    file://0002-PKG_CONFIG_LIB_PATHS-use-cmake-root-path.patch \
     file://0001-use-python-provided-by-environment-instead-of-the-ge.patch \
     "
 
diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/files/0002-PKG_CONFIG_LIB_PATHS-use-cmake-root-path.patch b/recipes-ros/catkin/files/0002-PKG_CONFIG_LIB_PATHS-use-cmake-root-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2500cfbcf9e666b5d6db172d249355f21ee97aeb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/files/0002-PKG_CONFIG_LIB_PATHS-use-cmake-root-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From 25b1c65090ece840e29844253577d7ed6dc8251f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Kristof Robot <krirobo@gmail.com>
-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:48:41 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] catkin: including root path in library search
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [only for our setup]
-
-Signed-off-by: Kristof Robot <krirobo@gmail.com>
----
- cmake/templates/pkgConfig.cmake.in | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/cmake/templates/pkgConfig.cmake.in b/cmake/templates/pkgConfig.cmake.in
-index 91f6d65..f7bf2b2 100644
---- a/cmake/templates/pkgConfig.cmake.in
-+++ b/cmake/templates/pkgConfig.cmake.in
-@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ foreach(library ${libraries})
-     foreach(path @PKG_CONFIG_LIB_PATHS@)
-       find_library(lib ${library}
-         PATHS ${path}
--        NO_DEFAULT_PATH NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH)
-+        NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
-       if(lib)
-         set(lib_path ${path})
-         break()
--- 
-1.8.3.2
-