diff --git a/libgloss/iq2000/configure b/libgloss/iq2000/configure
index b46846f30..33337e881 100755
--- a/libgloss/iq2000/configure
+++ b/libgloss/iq2000/configure
@@ -584,10 +584,8 @@ PACKAGE_URL=
 ac_unique_file="crt0.S"
 ac_subst_vars='LTLIBOBJS
 LIBOBJS
-part_specific_obj
 target_makefile_frag_path
 host_makefile_frag_path
-LD_TYPE
 CCASFLAGS
 CCAS
 RANLIB
@@ -2541,13 +2539,6 @@ test "${CCASFLAGS+set}" = set || CCASFLAGS=$CFLAGS
 host_makefile_frag=${srcdir}/../config/default.mh
 target_makefile_frag=${srcdir}/../config/default.mt
 
-if test "${with_multisubdir}" = "m32"; then
-  LD_TYPE="m32"
-else
-  LD_TYPE="m16"
-fi
-
-
 host_makefile_frag_path=$host_makefile_frag
 
 
@@ -2555,7 +2546,6 @@ target_makefile_frag_path=$target_makefile_frag
 
 
 
-
 ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile"
 
 cat >confcache <<\_ACEOF
diff --git a/libgloss/iq2000/configure.ac b/libgloss/iq2000/configure.ac
index d065a3e0a..eab431a79 100644
--- a/libgloss/iq2000/configure.ac
+++ b/libgloss/iq2000/configure.ac
@@ -34,13 +34,6 @@ LIB_AM_PROG_AS
 host_makefile_frag=${srcdir}/../config/default.mh
 target_makefile_frag=${srcdir}/../config/default.mt
 
-if test "${with_multisubdir}" = "m32"; then
-  LD_TYPE="m32"
-else
-  LD_TYPE="m16"
-fi
-AC_SUBST(LD_TYPE)
- 
 dnl We have to assign the same value to other variables because autoconf
 dnl doesn't provide a mechanism to substitute a replacement keyword with
 dnl arbitrary data or pathnames.
@@ -51,7 +44,6 @@ AC_SUBST_FILE(host_makefile_frag)
 target_makefile_frag_path=$target_makefile_frag
 AC_SUBST(target_makefile_frag_path)
 AC_SUBST_FILE(target_makefile_frag)
-AC_SUBST(part_specific_obj)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile,
 . ${srcdir}/../../config-ml.in,