diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 709235af..ae1ff04f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-04-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	frcode: avoid link failure due to multiple program_name definition
+	* locate/frcode.c: Include "progname.h".
+	(program_name): Remove two declarations.
+	Now the definition comes from gnulib.
+
 2010-04-04  James Youngman  <jay@gnu.org>
 
 	Fix Savannah bug #29435: fd_is_cloexec does not work on Fedora
diff --git a/locate/frcode.c b/locate/frcode.c
index 85f5619a..0e144d57 100644
--- a/locate/frcode.c
+++ b/locate/frcode.c
@@ -102,12 +102,10 @@
 #include "error.h"
 #include "closeout.h"
 #include "findutils-version.h"
+#include "progname.h"
 
 char *xmalloc PARAMS((size_t));
 
-/* The name this program was run with.  */
-char *program_name;
-
 /* Write out a 16-bit int, high byte first (network byte order).
  * Return true iff all went well.
  */
@@ -151,10 +149,6 @@ static struct option const longopts[] =
 
 extern char *version_string;
 
-/* The name this program was run with. */
-char *program_name;
-
-
 static void
 usage (FILE *stream)
 {