diff --git a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
index dc80bf816..b5799d6f0 100644
--- a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
@@ -395,7 +395,6 @@ void cmUnixMakefileGenerator::OutputLinkLibraries(std::ostream& fout,
   
   std::string librariesLinked;
   const cmTarget::LinkLibraries& libs = tgt.GetLinkLibraries();
-  cmRegularExpression reg("lib(.*)(\\.so$|\\.a|\\.sl$)");
   for(cmTarget::LinkLibraries::const_iterator lib = libs.begin();
       lib != libs.end(); ++lib)
     {