diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 7490acbcfb..0000000000
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
-
-## Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
-##
-## 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 2.1 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, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# when building from tarball -Werror isn't auto enabled
-# so force it explicitly
-DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --enable-werror
-
-SUBDIRS = .
-
-XZ_OPT ?= -v -T0
-export XZ_OPT
-
-rpm: clean
-	@(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ta $(distdir).tar.xz)
-
-srpm: clean
-	@(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ts $(distdir).tar.xz)
-
-ci-%:
-	$(MAKE) -C $(srcdir)/ci/ $@
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3024609515..577bb58516 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -103,6 +103,4 @@ m4_if(m4_version_compare([2.61a.100],
       [AC_CONFIG_LINKS([$GNUmakefile:$GNUmakefile], [],
         [GNUmakefile=$GNUmakefile])])
 
-AC_CONFIG_FILES([\
-        Makefile])
 AC_OUTPUT