diff --git a/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
index 4be14614..9368eb76 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ set(cmakeFiles
                cmake-modules-styleguide.txt
                kde4init_dummy.cpp.in
                kde4_cmake_uninstall.cmake.in
-               kde4automoc.files.in
                BasicFindPackageVersion.cmake.in
                FindLibPython.py
                FindPyKDE4.py
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake
index 66685972..5b6c7ab1 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 # compile KDE software:
 #
 #  KDE4_KCFGC_EXECUTABLE    - the kconfig_compiler executable
-#  KDE4_AUTOMOC_EXECUTABLE  - the kde4automoc executable, deprecated, use AUTOMOC4_EXECUTABLE instead
 #  KDE4_MAKEKDEWIDGETS_EXECUTABLE - the makekdewidgets executable
 #
 # The following variables point to the location of the KDE libraries,
@@ -397,9 +396,6 @@ endif (NOT AUTOMOC4_VERSION)
 set(_automoc4_min_version "0.9.88")
 macro_ensure_version("${_automoc4_min_version}" "${AUTOMOC4_VERSION}" _automoc4_version_ok)
 
-# for compatibility with KDE 4.0.x
-set(KDE4_AUTOMOC_EXECUTABLE        "${AUTOMOC4_EXECUTABLE}" )
-
 # Perl is not required for building KDE software, but we had that here since 4.0
 find_package(Perl)
 if(NOT PERL_FOUND)
diff --git a/cmake/modules/kde4automoc.files.in b/cmake/modules/kde4automoc.files.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 011c52a3..00000000
--- a/cmake/modules/kde4automoc.files.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-MOC_INCLUDES:
-@_moc_incs@
-SOURCES:
-@_moc_files@