diff --git a/app-text/tesseract/tesseract-3.02.02.recipe b/app-text/tesseract/tesseract-3.02.02.recipe
index d1512ce35..74c5a6ffc 100644
--- a/app-text/tesseract/tesseract-3.02.02.recipe
+++ b/app-text/tesseract/tesseract-3.02.02.recipe
@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:libtoolize
 	cmd:make
 	"
-SOURCE_DIR="tesseract-ocr"
-
 PATCHES="tesseract-3.02.02.patch"
 
 PATCH()