diff --git a/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.3-r2.ebuild b/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.3-r2.ebuild
index 95c001856050c..3d1f2530f8fe1 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 multilib_src_configure() {
-	use userland_BSD && export HOST="${CHOST}"
 	# --includedir= path maintains a few properties:
 	# 1. have stable name across libffi versions: some packages like
 	#    dev-lang/ghc or kde-frameworks/networkmanager-qt embed
diff --git a/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.4.2-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.4.2-r1.ebuild
index 8af06625307f8..492d9b34c625d 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.4.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libffi/libffi-3.4.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 multilib_src_configure() {
-	use userland_BSD && export HOST="${CHOST}"
 	# --includedir= path maintains a few properties:
 	# 1. have stable name across libffi versions: some packages like
 	#    dev-lang/ghc or kde-frameworks/networkmanager-qt embed