diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
index 192381b7b6..8e75965a9b 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*-makefile-*-
-# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.161 2003/04/04 20:42:11 momjian Exp $
+# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.162 2003/05/11 20:50:53 tgl Exp $
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # All PostgreSQL makefiles include this file and use the variables it sets,
@@ -262,9 +262,8 @@ host_tuple = @host@
 host_os = @host_os@
 host_cpu = @host_cpu@
 
-# Grungy things needed for HP-UX
+# The HP-UX port makefile, for one, needs access to this symbol
 HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS= @HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS@
-HPUXMATHLIB= @HPUXMATHLIB@
 
 # This is mainly for use on FreeBSD, where we have both a.out and elf
 # systems now.  May be applicable to other systems to?
diff --git a/src/makefiles/Makefile.hpux b/src/makefiles/Makefile.hpux
index d1d18fb878..559b887f26 100644
--- a/src/makefiles/Makefile.hpux
+++ b/src/makefiles/Makefile.hpux
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS), no)
    LIBS := -lBSD $(LIBS)
 endif
 
-# On HPUX 9, rint() is provided only in the PA1.1 version of libm.
-# If configure found it necessary to link against /lib/pa1.1 to find rint,
-# add -L command to make that happen.
-# (CAUTION: you need PHSS_4630 to have a working version of rint() on 9!)
-ifneq ($(HPUXMATHLIB),)
-   LDFLAGS:= -L/lib/pa1.1 $(LDFLAGS)
-endif
-
 # Embed 'libdir' as the shared library search path so that the executables
 # don't need SHLIB_PATH to be set.  (We do not observe the --enable-rpath
 # switch here because you'd get rather bizarre behavior if you leave this