diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d6f1267b8..d077b097d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-11-25  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: Remove stray dependency on gdk-pixbuf-xlib; we
+	don't use the xlib specific API anymore. (thanks to Matthias
+	Clasen)
+
 2008-11-25  Neil Roberts  <neil@linux.intel.com>
 
 	Bug 1299 - clutter_score_remove will segmentation fault if
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 45c3db9e2..4ca24aa38 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -384,11 +384,6 @@ case $clutterbackend in
       AC_MSG_ERROR([GLX not found and GLX backend requested]);
     fi
 
-    if test "x$imagebackend" = "xgdk-pixbuf"; then
-        # xlib pixbuf needed for exporting the stage
-        BACKEND_PC_FILES="gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0"
-    fi
-
     GLX_LIBS="$X11_LIBS -lGL"
     GLX_CFLAGS="$X11_CFLAGS"
     backendextra=x11