diff --git a/indra/llcommon/CMakeLists.txt b/indra/llcommon/CMakeLists.txt
index ab14d3794b3f59ae296479cd2d4eb29acd431cf1..0095d338f11755b5b5957b67578767dd85a23817 100755
--- a/indra/llcommon/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/indra/llcommon/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ set(llcommon_SOURCE_FILES
 set(llcommon_HEADER_FILES
     CMakeLists.txt
 
-    ctype_workaround.h
     fix_macros.h
     indra_constants.h
     is_approx_equal_fraction.h
diff --git a/indra/llcommon/ctype_workaround.h b/indra/llcommon/ctype_workaround.h
deleted file mode 100755
index 552be9fb90483ad6bef33b2ce540437bc6b242da..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/indra/llcommon/ctype_workaround.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-/** 
- * @file ctype_workaround.h
- * @brief The workaround is to create some legacy symbols that point
- * to the correct symbols, which avoids link errors.
- *
- * $LicenseInfo:firstyear=2006&license=viewerlgpl$
- * Second Life Viewer Source Code
- * Copyright (C) 2010, Linden Research, Inc.
- * 
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
- * version 2.1 of the License only.
- * 
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- * 
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
- * 
- * Linden Research, Inc., 945 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA  94111  USA
- * $/LicenseInfo$
- */
-
-#ifndef _CTYPE_WORKAROUND_H_
-#define _CTYPE_WORKAROUND_H_
-
-/**
- * the CTYPE_WORKAROUND is needed for linux dev stations that don't
- * have the broken libc6 packages needed by our out-of-date static
- * libs (such as libcrypto and libcurl).
- *
- * -- Leviathan 20060113
-*/
-
-#include <cctype>
-
-__const unsigned short int *__ctype_b;
-__const __int32_t *__ctype_tolower;
-__const __int32_t *__ctype_toupper;
-
-// call this function at the beginning of main() 
-void ctype_workaround()
-{
-	__ctype_b = *(__ctype_b_loc());
-	__ctype_toupper = *(__ctype_toupper_loc());
-	__ctype_tolower = *(__ctype_tolower_loc());
-}
-
-#endif
-