1 files changed, 1 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
index 5fa13f01a4..e1627a960a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm
@@ -5313,42 +5313,7 @@ provides additional functionality on the produced Mallard documents.")
     (description "Cython is an optimising static compiler for both the Python
 programming language and the extended Cython programming language.  It makes
 writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself.")
-    (license license:asl2.0)
-    (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python2-cython))))))
-
-(define-public python2-cython
-  (let ((base (package-with-python2 (strip-python2-variant python-cython))))
-    (package/inherit base
-      (name "python2-cython")
-      (inputs
-       `(("python-2" ,python-2)))       ;this is not automatically changed
-      (arguments
-       (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments base)
-         ((#:phases phases)
-          `(modify-phases ,phases
-             (add-before 'check 'adjust-test_embed
-               (lambda _
-                 (substitute* "runtests.py"
-                   ;; test_embed goes great lengths to find the static libpythonX.Y.a
-                   ;; so it can give the right -L flag to GCC when embedding static
-                   ;; builds of Python.  It is unaware that the Python "config"
-                   ;; directory (where the static library lives) was renamed in
-                   ;; Python 3, and falls back to sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBDIR'),
-                   ;; which works fine, because that is where the shared library is.
-                   ;;
-                   ;; It also appears to be unaware that the Makefile in Demos/embed
-                   ;; already unconditionally pass the static library location to GCC,
-                   ;; after checking sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBPL).
-                   ;;
-                   ;; The effect is that the linker is unable to resolve libexpat
-                   ;; symbols when building for Python 2, because neither the Python 2
-                   ;; shared library nor Expat is available.   To fix it, we can either
-                   ;; add Expat as an input and make it visible to the linker, or just
-                   ;; prevent it from overriding the Python shared library location.
-                   ;; The end result is identical, so we take the easy route.
-                   ((" or libname not in os\\.listdir\\(libdir\\)")
-                    ""))
-                 #t)))))))))
+    (license license:asl2.0)))
 
 (define-public python-cython-3
   (package