diff --git a/config/netpbm/config.mk b/config/netpbm/config.mk
index b1a2cf73d..0cb85db6e 100644
--- a/config/netpbm/config.mk
+++ b/config/netpbm/config.mk
@@ -688,4 +688,3 @@ TIFFLIB = libtiff.so
 JPEGLIB = libjpeg.so
 ZLIB = libz.so
 NETPBM_DOCURL = http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/
-WANT_SSE = Y