diff --git a/academic/suitesparse/README b/academic/suitesparse/README
index 958510ea48..90c23fa503 100644
--- a/academic/suitesparse/README
+++ b/academic/suitesparse/README
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ Suitesparse is an optional dependency for the octave package.
 
 NOTES:
 
-* To build octave with SuiteSparse 4.x you'll need to add a second library
-to the octave's configure option --with-umfpack:
-
-    --with-umfpack="-lumfpack -lsuitesparseconfig"
-
 * CHOLMOD can also be compiled to use the METIS library, but it is not
 used here because its licensing terms exclude it from Octave.