diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index bd7598a35a..ff33d78365 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -562,7 +562,6 @@ int main() { return 0; }''',
             cxx_flags.append('-D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_CXX17_REMOVED_UNARY_BINARY_FUNCTION')
         else:
             cxx_flags.append('-DBOOST_NO_AUTO_PTR')
-            cxx_flags.append('-DBOOST_BIND_GLOBAL_PLACEHOLDERS')
 
     if (is_clang and platform == "darwin"):
         # Silence warnings about the non-existing osx clang compiler flags
@@ -747,7 +746,7 @@ int main() { return 0; }''',
 
     # need ISOC9X for llabs()
     compiler_flags.extend(
-        ('-DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED', '-DBOOST_BIND_GLOBAL_PLACEHOLDERS', '-D_ISOC9X_SOURCE',
+        ('-DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED', '-D_ISOC9X_SOURCE',
          '-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE', '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'))
     cxx_flags.extend(
         ('-D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS', '-D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS',