diff --git a/extra/speex/PKGBUILD b/extra/speex/PKGBUILD
index bc41c344c..f16b24f5e 100644
--- a/extra/speex/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/speex/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Jason Chu <jason@archlinux.org>
 
-# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
-#  - enhancements for armv5
+# remove when bumped upstream
 
 pkgname=speex
 pkgver=1.2.0
@@ -17,9 +16,7 @@ sha256sums=('eaae8af0ac742dc7d542c9439ac72f1f385ce838392dc849cae4536af9210094')
 
 build() {
   cd $pkgname-$pkgver
-
-  [[ "$CARCH" == "arm" ]] && CONFIG="--enable-arm5e-asm --enable-fixed-point"
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-static $CONFIG \
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-static \
     --enable-binaries # Must be given or configure won't use pkg-config correctly
   make
 }