diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 28b9bd4f5a..0920b6066b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -386,7 +386,6 @@ mcheck.h \
 netinet/in.h \
 siginfo.h \
 stdint.h \
-strings.h \
 sys/epoll.h \
 sys/inotify.h \
 sys/signalfd.h \
diff --git a/src/lib/eina/eina_simple_xml_parser.c b/src/lib/eina/eina_simple_xml_parser.c
index 1f978b0726..5becc27859 100644
--- a/src/lib/eina/eina_simple_xml_parser.c
+++ b/src/lib/eina/eina_simple_xml_parser.c
@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@
 # include "config.h"
 #endif
 
-
-#ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
-# include <strings.h>
-#endif
+#include <strings.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <ctype.h>