diff --git a/gthread/Makefile.am b/gthread/Makefile.am
index 617c94afa..e14262189 100644
--- a/gthread/Makefile.am
+++ b/gthread/Makefile.am
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST +=				\
 		makefile.msc.in		\
 		gthread-posix.c		\
 		gthread-win32.c		\
-		gthread-none.c		\
 		gthread.def		\
 		gthread.rc.in
 
diff --git a/gthread/gthread-none.c b/gthread/gthread-none.c
deleted file mode 100644
index fb4c88710..000000000
--- a/gthread/gthread-none.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-/* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
- * Copyright (C) 1995-1997  Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
- *
- * gthread.c: fallback thread system implementation
- * Copyright 1998 Sebastian Wilhelmi; University of Karlsruhe
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- */
-
-/*
- * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000.  See the AUTHORS
- * file for a list of people on the GLib Team.  See the ChangeLog
- * files for a list of changes.  These files are distributed with
- * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/. 
- */
-
-/* 
- * MT safe
- */
-
-static GThreadFunctions
-g_thread_functions_for_glib_use_default; /* is NULLified */
-
-#define G_MUTEX_SIZE 0