diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog b/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
index 5abf97c5af..dc34ae4326 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-2001-10-09  Angus Leeming  <a.leeming@ic.ac.uk>
-
-	* ControlSpellchecker.C: commented out redundant includes.
-
 2001-10-09  Herbert Voss  <voss@perce.de>
 
 	* ControlTexinfo.[Ch]: new files. Display information about the
diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
index 0ea68ebc95..e724c585b2 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
@@ -17,17 +17,16 @@
 #pragma implementation
 #endif
 
-// I think that this is no longer needed (Angus 9 October, 2001).
-//#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
-//# ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
-//   // <strings.h> is needed at least on AIX because FD_ZERO uses bzero().
-//   // BUT we cannot include both string.h and strings.h on Irix 6.5 :(
-//#  ifdef _AIX
-//#   include <strings.h>
-//#  endif
-//# endif
-//#include <sys/select.h>
-//#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
+# ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
+   // <strings.h> is needed at least on AIX because FD_ZERO uses bzero().
+   // BUT we cannot include both string.h and strings.h on Irix 6.5 :(
+#  ifdef _AIX
+#   include <strings.h>
+#  endif
+# endif
+#include <sys/select.h>
+#endif
 
 #include "buffer.h"
 #include "lyxrc.h"