diff --git a/share/man/man7/arch.7 b/share/man/man7/arch.7
index d6f86a87a55b..d4b7f06ec94a 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/arch.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/arch.7
@@ -330,9 +330,7 @@ Note that GCC 4.2.1 is deprecated, and scheduled for removal on 2020-03-31.
 Any CPU architectures not migrated by then
 (to either base system Clang or external toolchain)
 may be removed from the tree after that date.
-Unless the make variable
-.Dv MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC
-is defined, make universe will not build mips or sparc64
+make universe will not build mips or sparc64
 architectures unless the xtoolchain binaries have been installed for
 the architecture.
 .Ss MACHINE_ARCH vs MACHINE_CPUARCH vs MACHINE