diff --git a/src/pm/hydra/configure.ac b/src/pm/hydra/configure.ac
index d626776d08e..2e2d8b2ab39 100644
--- a/src/pm/hydra/configure.ac
+++ b/src/pm/hydra/configure.ac
@@ -439,14 +439,6 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HYDRA_HAVE_HWLOC], [test "${pac_have_hwloc}" = "yes"])
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([available processor topology libraries])
 AC_MSG_RESULT([$available_topolibs])
 
-#########################################################################
-# Slurm hostlist parsing
-#########################################################################
-PAC_CHECK_HEADER_LIB_OPTIONAL([slurm],[slurm/slurm.h],[slurm],[slurm_hostlist_create])
-if test "$pac_have_slurm" = "yes" ; then
-    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SLURM,1,[Define if slurm is available])
-fi
-
 #########################################################################
 # POSIX Regcomp
 #########################################################################
diff --git a/src/pm/hydra/lib/tools/bootstrap/external/slurm_query_node_list.c b/src/pm/hydra/lib/tools/bootstrap/external/slurm_query_node_list.c
index f420feb80e6..d1f3bf9ee88 100644
--- a/src/pm/hydra/lib/tools/bootstrap/external/slurm_query_node_list.c
+++ b/src/pm/hydra/lib/tools/bootstrap/external/slurm_query_node_list.c
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@
 #include "slurm.h"
 
 /* START UNIT - list_to_nodes */
-#if defined(HAVE_SLURM)
-#include <slurm/slurm.h>        /* for slurm_hostlist_create */
-#elif defined(HAVE_POSIX_REGCOMP)
+#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_REGCOMP)
 #include <regex.h>      /* for POSIX regular expressions */
 
 #define MAX_GMATCH 5    /* max number of atoms in group matches + 1 */
@@ -23,33 +21,7 @@
 static int *tasks_per_node = NULL;
 static struct HYD_node *global_node_list = NULL;
 
-#if defined(HAVE_SLURM)
-static HYD_status list_to_nodes(char *str)
-{
-    hostlist_t *hostlist;
-    char *host;
-    int k = 0;
-    HYD_status status = HYD_SUCCESS;
-
-    if ((hostlist = slurm_hostlist_create(str)) == NULL) {
-        status = HYD_FAILURE;
-        goto fn_fail;
-    }
-
-    for (host = slurm_hostlist_shift(hostlist); host; host = slurm_hostlist_shift(hostlist)) {
-        status = HYDU_add_to_node_list(host, tasks_per_node[k++], &global_node_list);
-        HYDU_ERR_POP(status, "unable to add to node list\n");
-    }
-
-    slurm_hostlist_destroy(hostlist);
-
-  fn_exit:
-    return status;
-
-  fn_fail:
-    goto fn_exit;
-}
-#elif defined(HAVE_POSIX_REGCOMP)
+#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_REGCOMP)
 static HYD_status list_to_nodes(char *str)
 {
     regex_t gmatch_old[2];