diff --git a/gtk/xdgmime/ChangeLog b/gtk/xdgmime/ChangeLog
index d307a2d9ec..09fa08d5f2 100644
--- a/gtk/xdgmime/ChangeLog
+++ b/gtk/xdgmime/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Feb  8 19:05:16 2004  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>
+
+	* xdgmimeint.h: declare _xdg_utf8_skip as extern to prevent multiple
+	definitions.
+
 Wed Jan 21 09:33:13 2004  Jonathan Blandford  <jrb@gnome.org>
 
 	* libgnomevfs/xdgmimeglob.c:
diff --git a/gtk/xdgmime/xdgmimeint.h b/gtk/xdgmime/xdgmimeint.h
index 8f6bafa41a..c0db921a10 100644
--- a/gtk/xdgmime/xdgmimeint.h
+++ b/gtk/xdgmime/xdgmimeint.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ typedef unsigned int   xdg_uint32_t;
 					      (((xdg_uint32_t)(val) & 0x000000FFU) << 24))
 /* UTF-8 utils
  */
-const char *const _xdg_utf8_skip;
+extern const char *const _xdg_utf8_skip;
 #define _xdg_utf8_next_char(p) (char *)((p) + _xdg_utf8_skip[*(unsigned char *)(p)])
 #define _xdg_utf8_char_size(p) (int) (_xdg_utf8_skip[*(unsigned char *)(p)])