diff --git a/prebuild/macOS/binding.gyp b/prebuild/macOS/binding.gyp
index cb185fd88..718844ac8 100644
--- a/prebuild/macOS/binding.gyp
+++ b/prebuild/macOS/binding.gyp
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
         '<!(node -p "require(\'node-addon-api\').include_dir")',
         '<!@(pkg-config cairo --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)',
         '<!@(pkg-config libpng --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)',
-        '<!@(pkg-config giflib --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)',
         '<!@(pkg-config pangocairo --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)',
         '<!@(pkg-config freetype2 --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)',
         '<!@(pkg-config librsvg-2.0 --cflags-only-I | sed s/-I//g)'
diff --git a/prebuild/macOS/preinstall.sh b/prebuild/macOS/preinstall.sh
index ac5ae2879..e71a2f8b0 100644
--- a/prebuild/macOS/preinstall.sh
+++ b/prebuild/macOS/preinstall.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ rm -f /usr/local/bin/python3-config || :
 # doesn't work to make them ignore conflicts. For now just ignore errors, yolo.
 brew install --force pkg-config cairo pango librsvg giflib || :
 
-pkg-config giflib --cflags-only-I
 brew --cellar giflib
 brew --prefix giflib