diff --git a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
index 5b1c8b7938..06e41ad535 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
@@ -1715,13 +1715,15 @@ high-performance parallel differential evolution (DE) optimization algorithm.")
            (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
              (delete-file-recursively
               (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
-                             "/share/ngspice/scripts")))))
+                             "/share/ngspice/scripts"))
+             (delete-file (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
+                                         "/include/config.h")))))
        #:configure-flags
        (list "--enable-openmp"
              "--enable-ciderlib"
              "--enable-xspice"
              "--with-ngshared"
-             "--with-readline=yes")))
+             "--with-readline=no")))
     (native-inputs
      `(("bison" ,bison)
        ("flex" ,flex)))