diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ae67fd54a..7ed77c267 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jan 29 10:52:09 2002  Nicola Pero  <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk>
+
+	* GNUmakefile.postamble (configure): Rule removed.  It was causing
+	problems on systems without autoconf.
+
 2002-01-25  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
 	* Documentation/gsdoc/GNUmakefile: Remove autogsdoc processing
diff --git a/GNUmakefile.postamble b/GNUmakefile.postamble
index cbc8dcdd3..5f6b759b8 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile.postamble
+++ b/GNUmakefile.postamble
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ after-clean::
 after-distclean:: remove-header-links
 	rm -f config.status config.log config.cache TAGS config.mak gui.make
 
-configure: configure.in
-	autoreconf
-
 gui.make: gui.make.in configure
 	./configure