diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 94f90ce73..e2bcc44f6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-07-05  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
+
+	* Makefile.in: Set LINGUAS to empty if ENABLE_NLS is undefined.
+
 2010-07-05  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
 
 	* Makefile.in (MAINTAINER_CLEANFILES): Add unicode/UnicodeData.txt,
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 9fec32c69..ec3b72296 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -53,9 +53,13 @@ XGETTEXT = @XGETTEXT@
 MSGMERGE = @MSGMERGE@
 MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@
 
+ifdef ENABLE_NLS
 LINGUAS = $(shell for i in $(srcdir)/po/*.po ; do \
 			if test -e $$i ; then echo $$i ; fi ; \
 		done | sed -e "s,.*/po/\(.*\)\.po$$,\1,")
+else
+LINGUAS =
+endif
 
 PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
 PACKAGE_NAME = @PACKAGE_NAME@