diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aec929ce90d..0bf18e23867 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-12-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* make-dist: Exclude etc/*.pyc.
+
 2010-12-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Don't double machfile in final message.
diff --git a/make-dist b/make-dist
index 7f7b01112ae..3d610c1eee6 100755
--- a/make-dist
+++ b/make-dist
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ echo "Making links to \`lwlib'"
 echo "Making links to \`etc' and its subdirectories"
 for f in `find etc -type f`; do
   case $f in
-    etc/DOC*) continue ;;
+    etc/DOC*|etc/*.pyc) continue ;;
   esac
   ln $f $tempdir/$f
 done