diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 44789128..43ecf6bc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 	files.  Use that instead of creating our own.
 	* doc/man/Makefile.am, doc/man/fr/Makefile.am - Use dist_ prefixes
 	and += appending supported by automake to produce simpler files.
+	* doc/Makefile.am - Drop redundant localedir, as autoconf/automake
+	already creates this for us.
 
 2014-03-27  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
 	* src/nano.c (main) - Fix compilation with --disable-utf8.
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index a0af063e..83ce0e7a 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-localedir = $(datadir)/locale
 AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"$(sysconfdir)\"
 
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4