diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index 44bc00c26..0c399cb9d 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-11-21  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* Makefile.am (OMIT_DEPENDENCIES): removed, since it seems to be
+	obsolete.  autogen.sh says:
+	invalid unused variable name: `OMIT_DEPENDENCIES'
+
 2001-11-22  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>
 
 	* numbers.c (scm_divide):  Fix (/ 0).  Thanks to Keith Wright for
diff --git a/libguile/Makefile.am b/libguile/Makefile.am
index b9fc1d004..07cf6b80e 100644
--- a/libguile/Makefile.am
+++ b/libguile/Makefile.am
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ EXTRA_libguile_la_SOURCES = _scm.h			\
 
 ## In next release, threads will be factored out of libguile.
 ## Until then, the machine specific headers is a temporary kludge.
-OMIT_DEPENDENCIES = libguile.h ltdl.h \
-    axp.h hppa.h i386.h ksr.h m88k.h mips.h sparc.h vax.h
+
+# Seems to be obsolete - autogen.sh is giving:
+# invalid unused variable name: `OMIT_DEPENDENCIES'
+#OMIT_DEPENDENCIES = libguile.h ltdl.h \
+#    axp.h hppa.h i386.h ksr.h m88k.h mips.h sparc.h vax.h
 
 ## delete guile-snarf.awk from the installation bindir, in case it's
 ## lingering there due to an earlier guile version not having been
diff --git a/qt/ChangeLog b/qt/ChangeLog
index be11f91c3..ae4e4d285 100644
--- a/qt/ChangeLog
+++ b/qt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-11-21  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* Makefile.am (OMIT_DEPENDENCIES): removed, since it seems to be
+	obsolete.  autogen.sh says:
+	invalid unused variable name: `OMIT_DEPENDENCIES'
+
 2001-11-04  Stefan Jahn  <stefan@lkcc.org>
 
 	* md/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Added `i386.asm'.
diff --git a/qt/Makefile.am b/qt/Makefile.am
index 25f05a657..4868a4a7f 100644
--- a/qt/Makefile.am
+++ b/qt/Makefile.am
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ libqthreads_la_LIBADD = qtmds.lo qtmdc.lo
 libqthreads_la_DEPENDENCIES = qtmds.lo qtmdc.lo
 libqthreads_la_LDFLAGS = -rpath $(libdir) -version-info @LIBGUILEQTHREADS_INTERFACE_CURRENT@:@LIBGUILEQTHREADS_INTERFACE_REVISION@:@LIBGUILEQTHREADS_INTERFACE_AGE@ -export-dynamic -no-undefined
 
-OMIT_DEPENDENCIES = axp.h hppa.h i386.h ksr.h m88k.h mips.h sparc.h vax.h
+# Seems to be obsolete - autogen.sh is giving:
+# invalid unused variable name: `OMIT_DEPENDENCIES'
+#OMIT_DEPENDENCIES = axp.h hppa.h i386.h ksr.h m88k.h mips.h sparc.h vax.h
 
 .s.lo:
 	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(COMPILE) $(qthread_asflags) -c $<