diff --git a/gnu/packages/rust.scm b/gnu/packages/rust.scm
index 91cd43a9e7..fcb8a77a2e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/rust.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/rust.scm
@@ -617,8 +617,26 @@ (define rust-1.60
    rust-1.59 "1.60.0" "1drqr0a26x1rb2w3kj0i6abhgbs3jx5qqkrcwbwdlx7n3inq5ji0"))
 
 (define rust-1.61
-  (rust-bootstrapped-package
-   rust-1.60 "1.61.0" "1vfs05hkf9ilk19b2vahqn8l6k17pl9nc1ky9kgspaascx8l62xd"))
+  (let ((base-rust
+          (rust-bootstrapped-package
+           rust-1.60 "1.61.0" "1vfs05hkf9ilk19b2vahqn8l6k17pl9nc1ky9kgspaascx8l62xd")))
+    (package
+      (inherit base-rust)
+      (source
+        (origin
+          (inherit (package-source base-rust))
+          (snippet
+           '(begin
+              (for-each delete-file-recursively
+                        '("src/llvm-project"
+                          "vendor/tikv-jemalloc-sys/jemalloc"))
+              ;; Remove vendored dynamically linked libraries.
+              ;; find . -not -type d -executable -exec file {} \+ | grep ELF
+              (delete-file "vendor/vte/vim10m_match")
+              (delete-file "vendor/vte/vim10m_table")
+              ;; Also remove the bundled (mostly Windows) libraries.
+              (for-each delete-file
+                        (find-files "vendor" ".*\\.(a|dll|exe|lib)$")))))))))
 
 (define rust-1.62
   (rust-bootstrapped-package