diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a5bb29ad5..f06d853edf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 /config.asm
 /config.h
 /coverage.info
-/avversion.h
 /lcov/
 /src
 /mapfile
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2d622ecd9c..1c38c522fb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ clean::
 	$(RM) -rf coverage.info coverage.info.in lcov
 
 distclean:: clean
-	$(RM) .version avversion.h config.asm config.h mapfile  \
+	$(RM) .version config.asm config.h mapfile  \
 		ffbuild/.config ffbuild/config.* libavutil/avconfig.h \
 		version.h libavutil/ffversion.h libavcodec/codec_names.h \
 		libavcodec/bsf_list.c libavformat/protocol_list.c \