diff --git a/SCons/Config/gnu b/SCons/Config/gnu
index 07257ac3..75f630eb 100644
--- a/SCons/Config/gnu
+++ b/SCons/Config/gnu
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ makensis_env.Append(CCFLAGS = '-O2')              # optimize
 makensis_env.Append(CCFLAGS = '-Wall')            # all warnings
 
 makensis_env.Append(LINKFLAGS = '-s')             # strip
-makensis_env.Append(LINKFLAGS = '$ALIGN_FLAG')    # 512 bytes align
 
 ### plugin environment