diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f341f36cf6a916db9772669751aff320f0e5cb00..09be32c5ba2a62729174fc2108b6ec2c65c197f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ clean: FORCE
 	rm -f $(gluon_prepared_stamp)
 
 
-export MD5SUM := $(GLUONDIR)/scripts/md5sum.sh
 export SHA512SUM := $(GLUONDIR)/scripts/sha512sum.sh
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/md5sum.sh b/scripts/md5sum.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6160058362303416be9ca921667629a8a189dfdc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/scripts/md5sum.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-check_command() {
-	which $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
-}
-
-if check_command md5sum; then
-	ret="$(md5sum "$@")"
-elif check_command md5; then
-	ret="$(md5 -q "$@")"
-else
-	echo "$0: no suitable md5sum implementation was found" >&1
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-[ "$?" -eq 0 ] || exit 1
-
-echo "$ret" | awk '{ print $1 }'