diff --git a/gthread/ChangeLog b/gthread/ChangeLog
index 04b0ecd2d..77e9b3c08 100644
--- a/gthread/ChangeLog
+++ b/gthread/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Dec 17 03:38:57 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>
+
+	* Makefile.am: -DG_LOG_DOMAIN="GThread", we don't need an extern
+	variable for that (noticed by Joel Becker <jlbec@ocala.cs.miami.edu>)
+
 Wed Dec 16 03:16:16 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>
 
 	* testgthread.c: s/g_thread_supported/g_thread_supported ()/
diff --git a/gthread/Makefile.am b/gthread/Makefile.am
index 72242b699..7e577f20b 100644
--- a/gthread/Makefile.am
+++ b/gthread/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
 
-INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/gthread -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_gthread
+INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/gthread -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GThread\"
 
 EXTRA_DIST =				\
 		gthread-posix.c		\
diff --git a/gthread/gthread.c b/gthread/gthread.c
index bca35ac28..3a5a6220a 100644
--- a/gthread/gthread.c
+++ b/gthread/gthread.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 
 #include <glib.h>
 
-static const char *g_log_domain_gthread = "GThread";
 static gboolean thread_system_already_initialized = FALSE;
 
 #include G_THREAD_SOURCE