diff --git a/python/build/openssl.py b/python/build/openssl.py
index 154658e33..8b0224598 100644
--- a/python/build/openssl.py
+++ b/python/build/openssl.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class OpenSSLProject(MakeProject):
 
         # OpenSSL has a weird target architecture scheme with lots of
         # hard-coded architectures; this table translates between our
-        # "toolchain_arch" (HOST_TRIPLET) and the OpenSSL target
+        # host triplet and the OpenSSL target
         openssl_archs = {
             # not using "android-*" because those OpenSSL targets want
             # to know where the SDK is, but our own build scripts
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ class OpenSSLProject(MakeProject):
             'aarch64-apple-darwin': 'darwin64-arm64-cc',
         }
 
-        openssl_arch = openssl_archs[toolchain.host_triplet]
-
         configure = [
             './Configure',
             'no-shared',