diff --git a/lisp/url/ChangeLog b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
index 9abb65d389d..aa87264dfef 100644
--- a/lisp/url/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-12-27  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+	* url.el (url-configuration-directory): Don't autoload because the
+	default value needs to be computed at run-time, not dump-time.
+
 2005-12-21  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
 	* url-cookie.el (url-cookie-write-file): Create parent dir.
diff --git a/lisp/url/url.el b/lisp/url/url.el
index 296b2b9f868..6d6540ac82a 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url.el
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 (require 'url-util)
 
 ;; Fixme: customize? convert-standard-filename?
-;;;###autoload
 (defvar url-configuration-directory
   (cond
    ((file-directory-p "~/.url") "~/.url")