diff --git a/util/mkdef.pl b/util/mkdef.pl
index 41992f57c27c8eac1ca33a301ad169a6b08f62c9..c9fa98ef056fc3adaf2ad0f8bbda10869a244c90 100755
--- a/util/mkdef.pl
+++ b/util/mkdef.pl
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ foreach (@known_algorithms) {
 # disabled by default
 $disabled_algorithms{"STATIC_ENGINE"} = 1;
 
+my $apiv = sprintf "%x%02x%02x", split(/\./, $config{api});
+foreach (keys %disabled_algorithms) {
+	if (/^DEPRECATEDIN_(\d+)_(\d+)_(\d+)$/) {
+		my $depv = sprintf "%x%02x%02x", $1, $2, $3;
+		$disabled_algorithms{$_} = 1 if $apiv ge $depv;
+	}
+}
+
 my $zlib;
 
 foreach (@ARGV, split(/ /, $config{options}))
@@ -177,25 +185,9 @@ foreach (@ARGV, split(/ /, $config{options}))
 	$do_ctest=1 if $_ eq "ctest";
 	$do_ctestall=1 if $_ eq "ctestall";
 	$do_checkexist=1 if $_ eq "exist";
-	if (/^--api=(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)$/) {
-		my $apiv = sprintf "%x%02x%02x", $1, $2, $3;
-		foreach (keys %disabled_algorithms) {
-			if (/^DEPRECATEDIN_(\d+)_(\d+)_(\d+)$/) {
-				my $depv = sprintf "%x%02x%02x", $1, $2, $3;
-				$disabled_algorithms{$_} = 1 if $apiv ge $depv;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if (/^no-deprecated$/) {
-		foreach (keys %disabled_algorithms) {
-			if (/^DEPRECATEDIN_/) {
-				$disabled_algorithms{$_} = 1;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	elsif (/^(enable|disable|no)-(.*)$/) {
+	if (/^(enable|disable|no)-(.*)$/) {
 		my $alg = uc $2;
-        $alg =~ tr/-/_/;
+		$alg =~ tr/-/_/;
 		if (exists $disabled_algorithms{$alg}) {
 			$disabled_algorithms{$alg} = $1 eq "enable" ? 0 : 1;
 		}