diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 382fa7e51..5da63348a 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT($has_pyglade)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 po/Makefile.in
-po/Makevars
 m4/Makefile
 Makefile
 gramps.sh
diff --git a/po/Makevars.in b/po/Makevars.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 54dd09c00..000000000
--- a/po/Makevars.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile variables for PO directory using GNU gettext.
-
-# These two variables depend on the location of this directory.
-subdir = po
-top_builddir = ..
-
-# These options get passed to xgettext.
-
-
-XGETTEXT_OPTIONS =             
-                        
-# possible options to include:
-#           -c, --add-comments[=TAG]           place comment block with TAG (or those 
-#                                                                   preceding keyword lines) in output file
-#            -k, --keyword[=WORD]                  additional keyword to be looked for (without
-#                                                                    WORD means not to use default keywords)
-#The default keyword specifications, which are always looked for if not
-#explicitly disabled are: gettext
-#                                   ugettext
-#                                   dgettext:2 
-#                                   ngettext:1,2 
-#                                   ungettext:1,2
-#                                   dngettext:2,3
-#                                   _
-#
-#For xgettext be able to extract strings in python file with import statment like tis:
-#
-#   from gettext import ngettext as _s
-#
-#you need to append this: "--keyword=_s:1,2 " 
-#to line XGETTEXT_OPTIONS