diff --git a/R/R-quanteda.textstats/Portfile b/R/R-quanteda.textstats/Portfile
index 8dc15e65a22..ae15c77beda 100644
--- a/R/R-quanteda.textstats/Portfile
+++ b/R/R-quanteda.textstats/Portfile
@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ checksums           rmd160  0fb18c3671c1ecd54a21f1b20307d5570573b5cd \
                     sha256  36db8f7a19627983ceeefc726a3d7fe0e9ff5685597dab82e2354b4e255ff42f \
                     size    139901
 
-# As with R-quanteda, it fails to configure properly.
-# Help it.
-patchfiles          patch-Makevars.diff
-
 depends_lib-append  port:onetbb \
                     port:R-nsyllable \
                     port:R-proxyC \
diff --git a/R/R-quanteda.textstats/files/patch-Makevars.diff b/R/R-quanteda.textstats/files/patch-Makevars.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 32e2a9822c8..00000000000
--- a/R/R-quanteda.textstats/files/patch-Makevars.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---- src/Makevars	2024-04-08 01:49:52.000000000 +0800
-+++ src/Makevars	2024-04-09 17:27:13.000000000 +0800
-@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
--PKG_LIBS = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS) `$(R_HOME)/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript ../inst/libtbb.R`
--PKG_CXXFLAGS = -DARMA_64BIT_WORD=1 `$(R_HOME)/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript ../inst/deftbb.R`
-+PKG_LIBS = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS) `$(R_HOME)/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript ../inst/libtbb.R`
-+PKG_CXXFLAGS = -DARMA_64BIT_WORD=1 `$(R_HOME)/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript ../inst/deftbb.R`