--- configure.in
+++ configure.in
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 AC_PROG_CC
 AC_STDC_HEADERS
 AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
-AC_PATH_PROGS(PATH_TO_XRDB, "xrdb")
 AC_PATH_PROG(GLIB_GENMARSHAL, glib-genmarshal)
 
 dnl make sure we keep ACLOCAL_FLAGS around for maintainer builds to work