diff --git a/cde/Makefile.am b/cde/Makefile.am
index aeaa306a1..4d4c6ef15 100644
--- a/cde/Makefile.am
+++ b/cde/Makefile.am
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in \
 		config.h.in \
 		install-sh
 
-SUBDIRS = lib logs programs doc
+SUBDIRS = lib programs doc
 
diff --git a/cde/logs/Imakefile b/cde/logs/Imakefile
deleted file mode 100644
index bbb832feb..000000000
--- a/cde/logs/Imakefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-XCOMM $XConsortium: Imakefile /main/5 1996/01/13 15:15:46 drk $
-all::
-	@FILES=`ls -rt | egrep -v "Imakefile|Makefile|logerr.sed" || true`; \
-	set -- $$FILES; \
-	while [ $$# -gt 10 ];do \
-	rm -rf $$1; \
-	echo "removing log file $$1"; shift; done
-
-includes::
-
-depend::
-
-clean::
diff --git a/cde/logs/Makefile.am b/cde/logs/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b18b0c64..000000000
--- a/cde/logs/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
-
-all::
-	@FILES=`ls -rt | egrep -v "Makefile.am|Makefile.in|Makefile|logerr.sed" || true`; \
-	set -- $$FILES; \
-	while [ $$# -gt 10 ];do \
-	rm -rf $$1; \
-	echo "removing log file $$1"; shift; done
-
-clean::
diff --git a/cde/logs/logerr.sed b/cde/logs/logerr.sed
deleted file mode 100644
index a25558f1f..000000000
--- a/cde/logs/logerr.sed
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-/cleaning/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/including/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/depending/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/making/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/installing/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]make:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]ld:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]cc:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]cp:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]gencat:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]mv:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/{^A-Za-z]rm:/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/[^-._A-Za-z][Ee][Rr][Rr][Oo][Rr][^-._A-Za-z]/ {
-    p
-    b eof
-}
-/couldn't set locale/h
-/making/g
-:eof