diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 1204519..ae01364 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@ echo "Running autoheader..." ; autoheader || exit 1
 echo "Running autoconf..." ; autoconf || exit 1
 echo "Running libtoolize..." ; (libtoolize --copy --automake || glibtoolize --automake) || exit 1
 echo "Running automake..." ; automake --add-missing --copy --gnu || exit 1
-echo "Generating gettext alarm.pot template"; \
-xgettext \
---output alarm.pot \
---output-dir=po \
---language=C \
---add-location \
---keyword=D_ \
---sort-by-file \
---copyright-holder="TODO" \
---foreign-user \
-`find . -name "*.[ch]" -print` || exit 1
 
 if [ -z "$NOCONFIGURE" ]; then
 	./configure "$@"