diff --git a/bindings/cxx/libsigrokcxx.pc.in b/bindings/cxx/libsigrokcxx.pc.in
index 432de770..0abc2e5e 100644
--- a/bindings/cxx/libsigrokcxx.pc.in
+++ b/bindings/cxx/libsigrokcxx.pc.in
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Name: libsigrokcxx
 Description: C++ bindings for libsigrok
 URL: http://www.sigrok.org
 Requires: libsigrok glibmm-2.4
-Requires.private: @SR_PKGLIBS@
 Version: @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lsigrokcxx
 Libs.private: -lm