diff --git a/guile-aclocal.sh b/guile-aclocal.sh
index d0b49c746..017011bfb 100755
--- a/guile-aclocal.sh
+++ b/guile-aclocal.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-temp=/tmp/guile-aclocal.$$
-trap "rm -rf $temp" 0 1 2 15
+# This trivial script exists to have a single place where the
+# invocation of aclocal is specified.  It is called from both
+# autogen.sh and the Makefile.
 
-mkdir $temp
-[ -d $temp ] || {
-  echo "guile-aclocal.sh: cannot create temp directory"
-  exit 1
-}
-
-# copy all installed aclocal files into $temp
-cp `aclocal --print-ac-dir`/*.m4 $temp
-
-# remove the .m4 files installed by Guile from $temp, so they don't
-# cause conflicts
-rm -f ${temp}/guile.m4 ${temp}/qthreads.m4
-
-aclocal --acdir=$temp -I .
+aclocal -I guile-config