diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 955c6267..acf2c2c6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Nov 23 11:47:48 CET 2007 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* threads.c: remove unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock
+	  reported by Hannes Eder
+
 Mon Nov 19 18:39:26 CET 2007 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* xmlregexp.c: remove a cut-and-paste copy error
diff --git a/threads.c b/threads.c
index 08c5ba3a..d5a177d3 100644
--- a/threads.c
+++ b/threads.c
@@ -428,8 +428,6 @@ __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock(void)
 {
     /* Make sure the global init lock is initialized and then lock it. */
 #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-    int err;
-
     /* The mutex is statically initialized, so we just lock it. */
     pthread_mutex_lock(&global_init_lock);
 #elif defined HAVE_WIN32_THREADS