diff --git a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.0.3.recipe b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.0.3.recipe
index 3d65e9c98..06f71b285 100644
--- a/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.0.3.recipe
+++ b/net-p2p/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.0.3.recipe
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 BUILD()
 {
 	bootstrap.sh
-	export BOOST_CPPFLAGS="-I/system/$relativeHeadersDir -DBOOST_NO_CXX11_REF_QUALIFIERS"
-		runConfigure \
+	BOOST_CPPFLAGS="-I/system/$relativeHeadersDir" runConfigure \
 		./configure --with-boost-libdir=/system/$relativeLibDir \
 		--disable-qt-dbus
 	make $jobArgs