diff --git a/src/temp/mktemp.c b/src/temp/mktemp.c
index ed2c103e776ea4fa84edc3f198b33aec30bfbc4e..de0f370947bbc666dfd177ca1355f28efc78f195 100644
--- a/src/temp/mktemp.c
+++ b/src/temp/mktemp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ char *__mktemp(char *template)
 {
 	size_t l = strlen(template);
 	int retries = 10000;
-	unsigned long r;
 
 	if (l < 6 || strcmp(template+l-6, "XXXXXX")) {
 		errno = EINVAL;