diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 045e3f4adf201a9289faf5f47fffe9ad8f67ca76..28bbd5588c26ac7596f8a0b893844bd91c3360cd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2009)
+- 'reconf' is removed since we rather have users use 'buildconf'
+
 Daniel Stenberg (31 Dec 2008)
 - Bas Mevissen reported http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2479030 pointing
   out that 'reconf' didn't properly point out the m4 subdirectory when running
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 38030152e90faa93773462887277c59e6c0da69b..6d1c91cde991401a9ce4106f2e383ed8ed7e80ca 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
 
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
 
-EXTRA_DIST = CHANGES COPYING maketgz reconf Makefile.dist curl-config.in \
+EXTRA_DIST = CHANGES COPYING maketgz Makefile.dist curl-config.in \
  curl-style.el sample.emacs RELEASE-NOTES buildconf buildconf.bat 	 \
  libcurl.pc.in vc6curl.dsw
 
diff --git a/reconf b/reconf
deleted file mode 100755
index 43e55cdb53e9a873c1b96e4c05bc153baac8711e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/reconf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# $Id$
-#
-# re autoconf/automake shell script
-#
-
-die(){
-	echo "$@" ; exit
-}
-
-aclocal -I . -I m4 || die "The command 'aclocal -I . -I m4' failed"
-autoheader   || die "The command 'autoheader' failed"
-automake     || die "The command 'automake' failed"
-autoconf     || die "The command 'autoconf' failed"