diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
index 66058feff3..634209c911 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DEPENDS = "ncurses bison-native virtual/libiconv"
 
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives ptest
 
-EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader"
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader,aclocal"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-job-control --without-bash-malloc bash_cv_wexitstatus_offset=8"
 
 # If NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS is defined, all login shells read the
@@ -46,12 +46,6 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " \
 
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "headersdir=${includedir}/${PN}"
 
-do_configure:prepend () {
-    if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 ]; then
-       cat ${S}/aclocal.m4 > ${S}/acinclude.m4
-    fi
-}
-
 do_compile:prepend() {
     # Remove any leftover .build files. This ensures that bash always has the
     # same version number and keeps builds reproducible
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash/use_aclocal.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash/use_aclocal.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e966b037a2..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash/use_aclocal.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-From b3a64702fa1978463c01bd5d9fe711e4628aba1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:04:27 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] bash: update 5.0 -> 5.1
-
-Including m4 files directly like this confuses autotools.bbclass, remove
-the references and rely upon aclocal to collect the m4 files together
-as needed instead making it work like other autotools based projects.
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE configuration specific]
-RP 2021/1/20
----
- configure.ac | 43 -------------------------------------------
- 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index 50a6e20..a3b5bd7 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -710,49 +710,6 @@ if test x$SIZE = x; then
- fi
- AC_SUBST(SIZE)
- 
--m4_include([m4/stat-time.m4])
--m4_include([m4/timespec.m4])
--
--m4_include([m4/strtoimax.m4])
--
--dnl include files for gettext
--
--m4_include([m4/codeset.m4])
--m4_include([m4/extern-inline.m4])
--m4_include([m4/fcntl-o.m4])
--m4_include([m4/gettext.m4])
--m4_include([m4/glibc2.m4])
--m4_include([m4/glibc21.m4])
--m4_include([m4/host-cpu-c-abi.m4])
--m4_include([m4/iconv.m4])
--m4_include([m4/intdiv0.m4])
--m4_include([m4/intl.m4])
--m4_include([m4/intlmacosx.m4])
--m4_include([m4/intl-thread-locale.m4])
--m4_include([m4/intmax.m4])
--m4_include([m4/inttypes-pri.m4])
--m4_include([m4/inttypes.m4])
--m4_include([m4/inttypes_h.m4])
--m4_include([m4/lcmessage.m4])
--m4_include([m4/lib-ld.m4])
--m4_include([m4/lib-link.m4])
--m4_include([m4/lib-prefix.m4])
--m4_include([m4/lock.m4])
--m4_include([m4/nls.m4])
--m4_include([m4/po.m4])
--m4_include([m4/printf-posix.m4])
--m4_include([m4/progtest.m4])
--m4_include([m4/pthread_rwlock_rdlock.m4])
--m4_include([m4/size_max.m4])
--m4_include([m4/stdint_h.m4])
--m4_include([m4/threadlib.m4])
--m4_include([m4/uintmax_t.m4])
--m4_include([m4/ulonglong.m4])
--m4_include([m4/visibility.m4])
--m4_include([m4/wchar_t.m4])
--m4_include([m4/wint_t.m4])
--m4_include([m4/xsize.m4])
--
- dnl C compiler characteristics
- AC_C_CONST
- AC_C_INLINE
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.2.37.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.2.37.bb
index 3dcaefa374..20c51ecdbc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.2.37.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.2.37.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/bash/${BP}.tar.gz;name=tarball \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://run-bash-ptests \
            file://fix-run-builtins.patch \
-           file://use_aclocal.patch \
            file://0001-changes-to-SIGINT-handler-while-waiting-for-a-child-.patch \
            file://fix-filesubst-errexit.patch \
            "