diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 56259e0ffc9..f72c73ad321 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-05-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* vpath.sed: Remove unused file.
+	* make-dist: No more vpath.sed.
+
 2012-05-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	Use full name for m4/gnulib-comp.m4.  (Bug#11529)
diff --git a/make-dist b/make-dist
index 9cf6af09e41..1e8fc9178f1 100755
--- a/make-dist
+++ b/make-dist
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ mkdir ${tempdir}
 echo "Making links to top-level files"
 ln INSTALL README BUGS ${tempdir}
 ln ChangeLog Makefile.in configure configure.in ${tempdir}
-ln config.bat make-dist update-subdirs vpath.sed .dir-locals.el ${tempdir}
+ln config.bat make-dist update-subdirs .dir-locals.el ${tempdir}
 ln aclocal.m4 ${tempdir}
 
 echo "Creating subdirectories"
diff --git a/vpath.sed b/vpath.sed
deleted file mode 100644
index a792eb0e913..00000000000
--- a/vpath.sed
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/^VPATH *=/c\
-# This works only in GNU make.  Using the patterns avoids\
-# object files being found by VPATH, and thus permits building\
-# when $srcdir is configured itself.\
-vpath %.c $(srcdir)\
-vpath %.h $(srcdir)\
-\
-