diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d128fb0..9f671ab 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ dnl Yes, it is a pain to synchronize version numbers.  Unfortunately, it's
 dnl not possible to extract the version number here from fontconfig.h
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(fontconfig, 2.8.90)
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
-AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
 dnl libtool versioning