diff --git a/meta/conf/multilib.conf b/meta/conf/multilib.conf
index ef3605a73d..09546315b8 100644
--- a/meta/conf/multilib.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/multilib.conf
@@ -22,15 +22,6 @@ MULTILIB_GLOBAL_VARIANTS ?= "lib32 lib64 libx32"
 
 OPKG_ARGS:append = " --force-maintainer --force-overwrite"
 
-# When multilib is enabled, allarch recipes will be installed into the MACHINE
-# sysroot, not MLPREFIXMACHINE.  This means that anything using pkg-config to
-# find an allarch pkgconfig file will fail as the PKG_CONFIG_PATH only looks
-# inside the multilib sysroot.  Fix this by explicitly adding the MACHINE's
-# architecture-independent pkgconfig location to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH .= ":${WORKDIR}/recipe-sysroot/${datadir}/pkgconfig"
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH[vardepsexclude] = "datadir WORKDIR"
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH[vardepvalueexclude] = ":${WORKDIR}/recipe-sysroot/${datadir}/pkgconfig"
-
 # These recipes don't need multilib variants, the ${BPN} PROVDES/RPROVDES
 # ${MLPREFIX}${BPN}
 NON_MULTILIB_RECIPES = "grub grub-efi make-mod-scripts ovmf u-boot"