diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.3.0.bb
index a90d2887bd..c03bb270d4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.3.0.bb
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://download.samba.org/pub/${BPN}/src/${BP}.tar.gz \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7399e9a6708c32d678a72a63219e96f23be0be2336e50fd1348498d07041df90"
 
+# Doesn't use automake
 inherit autotools-brokensep
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "acl attr \
@@ -49,14 +50,10 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-md2man --with-nobody-group=nogroup"
 #| If you can't fix the issue, re-run ./configure with --disable-roll-simd.
 EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " --disable-roll-simd"
 
-# rsync 3.0 uses configure.sh instead of configure, and
-# makefile checks the existence of configure.sh
+# rsync uses configure.sh instead of configure, so delete that file
+# to avoid confusion as we will generate configure.
 do_configure:prepend () {
-	rm -f ${S}/configure ${S}/configure.sh
-}
-
-do_configure:append () {
-	cp -f ${S}/configure ${S}/configure.sh
+       rm -f ${S}/configure.sh
 }
 
 do_install:append() {