diff --git a/meta-citadel/conf/distro/citadel-distro.conf b/meta-citadel/conf/distro/citadel-distro.conf
index af1079f..9bb6831 100644
--- a/meta-citadel/conf/distro/citadel-distro.conf
+++ b/meta-citadel/conf/distro/citadel-distro.conf
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES = "1"
 
 INHERIT += "reproducible_build"
 
-GCCVERSION = "7.%"
-
 # Override meta-rust dependencies.
 #
 # Instead of bringing in all of openembedded, we imported the two recipes
diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross_7.3.bbappend b/meta-citadel/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross_7.3.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index b315fa4..0000000
--- a/meta-citadel/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross_7.3.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-
-# headers needed to compile gcc plugins, needed for grsec gcc plugins during kernel build
-do_install_append () {
-	cp ${S}/include/libiberty.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/mem-stats-traits.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/hash-traits.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/hash-map-traits.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/mem-stats.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/memory-block.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/config/i386/linux64.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/config/i386
-	cp ${S}/gcc/brig-builtins.def ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/expr.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/tree-vrp.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/builtins.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-	cp ${S}/gcc/backend.h ${D}${libdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/plugin/include/
-}