diff --git a/config/ChangeLog b/config/ChangeLog
index 4e6b739d83..cd1ed96931 100644
--- a/config/ChangeLog
+++ b/config/ChangeLog
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
+2002-12-17  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
+
+	* configure.ac:
+	* configure.in: remove the XOpenIM test as lyxlookup.C has been buried.
+
 2002-12-16  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: replace LYX_USE_XFORMS_IMAGE_LOADER with
 	LYX_CHECK_XFORMS_IMAGE_LOADER.
 	Remove AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_BASIC_IMAGE_LOADER, ...) test.
 
-	* configure.ac: As above. However, I have also found it necessary to
+	* configure.in: As above. However, I have also found it necessary to
 	comment out some tests from the gnome block of case "$lyx_use_frontend"
 	otherwise they were replicated. No idea what is going wrong here.
 
 	* xforms.m4 (XFORMS_VERSION): update warning/error messages.
 	(LYX_CHECK_XFORMS_IMAGE_LOADER): replaces LYX_USE_XFORMS_IMAGE_LOADER.
-	The function is far simpler as we don't have to worry about xforms < 0.89.5.
+	The function is far simpler as we don't have to worry about
+	xforms < 0.89.5.
 
 2002-11-25  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
 
diff --git a/config/configure.ac b/config/configure.ac
index c6036748b5..0a7cacb07f 100644
--- a/config/configure.ac
+++ b/config/configure.ac
@@ -147,9 +147,6 @@ if test -n "$GXX" ; then
 fi
 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $X_CFLAGS"
 
-## Check whether X is new enough to handle the input method stuff
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(XOpenIM)
-
 ### check which frontend we want to use
 
 #LYX_USE_FRONTEND
diff --git a/config/configure.in b/config/configure.in
index 4aba413089..5b5d2c594d 100644
--- a/config/configure.in
+++ b/config/configure.in
@@ -150,9 +150,6 @@ if test -n "$GXX" ; then
 fi
 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $X_CFLAGS"
 
-## Check whether X is new enough to handle the input method stuff
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(XOpenIM)
-
 ### check which frontend we want to use
 
 #LYX_USE_FRONTEND