--- configure.in
+++ configure.in
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@
 dnl For one reason or another, the autogenerated m4/gnulib.m4 wants
 dnl AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) called directly from here.
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION dnl work around for autoconf-2.57 bug.
 # The error module still poses merge problems.
 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R
 dnl The following macros can be called by other GNULIB macros but are also