diff --git a/macros/ChangeLog b/macros/ChangeLog
index 7ab30cf936..e43cd36cf8 100644
--- a/macros/ChangeLog
+++ b/macros/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1998-09-02  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
+
+	* gnome-support.m4: Remove check for `canonicalize_file_name'.
+
 1998-09-02  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
 
 	* gnome-support.m4: Check for canonicalize_file_name () and
diff --git a/macros/gnome-support.m4 b/macros/gnome-support.m4
index 61b825aa42..88100fa958 100644
--- a/macros/gnome-support.m4
+++ b/macros/gnome-support.m4
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([GNOME_SUPPORT_CHECKS],[
   AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(memmove mkstemp scandir strcasecmp strerror strndup strnlen)
   AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(strtok_r strtod strtol strtoul vasprintf)
 
-  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(canonicalize_file_name,,LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS canonicalize.o")
+  #AC_CHECK_FUNCS(canonicalize_file_name,,LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS canonicalize.o")
   AC_CHECK_FUNCS(realpath,,LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS canonicalize.o")
 
   # to include `error.c' error.c has some HAVE_* checks