diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 044e062d..23dc503e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -90,21 +90,11 @@ if (! -e "$relpath/qtbase/configure") {
 
 ensureDir("$outpath/qtbase");
 chdir("$outpath/qtbase");
-if (-e ".qmake.cache") {
-    # Remove this so we can detect if configure finished properly
-    unlink ".qmake.cache";
-}
 my $ret = system_v("$relpath/qtbase/configure @ARGV");
 if ($ret != 0) {
     print "*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.\n";
     exit ($ret>>8) ;
 }
-if (! -e ".qmake.cache") {
-    # Even though there was no error code, this file wasn't created
-    # so configure didn't finish properly. This is probably because
-    # the user passed -help
-    exit 0;
-}
 
 chdir("$outpath");