diff --git a/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/qmake.conf b/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/qmake.conf
index 53cd35611f9..95dcf8ee32f 100644
--- a/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/qmake.conf
+++ b/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/qmake.conf
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ QMAKE_LFLAGS_SONAME     = -Wl,-soname,
 QMAKE_LFLAGS_THREAD     =
 QMAKE_LFLAGS_RPATH      = -Wl,-rpath,
 QMAKE_CYGWIN_SHLIB      = 1
-QMAKE_CYGWIN_EXE        = 1
 
 QMAKE_LIBS              =
 QMAKE_LIBS_DYNLOAD      = -ldl
diff --git a/qmake/generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp b/qmake/generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp
index 975c173ea70..4babd728ff8 100644
--- a/qmake/generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp
+++ b/qmake/generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp
@@ -1177,8 +1177,6 @@ void UnixMakefileGenerator::init2()
         }
         if(!project->isEmpty("TARGET"))
             project->values("TARGET").first().prepend(project->first("DESTDIR"));
-       if (!project->values("QMAKE_CYGWIN_EXE").isEmpty())
-            project->values("TARGET_EXT").append(".exe");
     } else if (project->isActiveConfig("staticlib")) {
         project->values("TARGET").first().prepend(project->first("QMAKE_PREFIX_STATICLIB"));
         project->values("TARGET").first() += "." + project->first("QMAKE_EXTENSION_STATICLIB");