diff --git a/cucul/Makefile.am b/cucul/Makefile.am
index e030d75..1caf70a 100644
--- a/cucul/Makefile.am
+++ b/cucul/Makefile.am
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ libcucul_la_SOURCES = \
 	cucul_internals.h \
 	buffer.c \
 	canvas.c \
-	error.c \
 	transform.c \
 	charset.c \
 	colour.c \
diff --git a/cucul/cucul.h b/cucul/cucul.h
index 4ec442d..cf335b1 100644
--- a/cucul/cucul.h
+++ b/cucul/cucul.h
@@ -79,18 +79,6 @@ void cucul_free_canvas(cucul_canvas_t *);
 int cucul_rand(int, int);
 /*  @} */
 
-/** \defgroup error libcucul error management
- *
- *  These functions provide simple error management routines.
- *
- *  @{ */
-#define ECUCUL_NOMEM (100)
-#define ECUCUL_INVAL (101)
-#define ECUCUL_RANGE (102)
-int cucul_errno(void);
-char const *cucul_strerr(int);
-/*  @} */
-
 /** \defgroup buffer libcucul buffer handling
  *
  *  These functions provide methods to handle libcucul buffers.
diff --git a/cucul/error.c b/cucul/error.c
deleted file mode 100644
index d49d33f..0000000
--- a/cucul/error.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  libcucul      Canvas for ultrafast compositing of Unicode letters
- *  Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
- *                All Rights Reserved
- *
- *  $Id$
- *
- *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- *  modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To
- *  Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
- *  http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
- */
-
-/*
- *  This file contains error management functions.
- */
-
-#include "config.h"
-#include "common.h"
-
-#include "cucul.h"
-#include "cucul_internals.h"
-
-int cucul_errno(void)
-{
-    return _cucul_errno;
-}
-
-char const *cucul_strerror(int error)
-{
-    switch(error)
-    {
-        case 0:
-            return "no error";
-        case ECUCUL_NOMEM:
-            return "not enough memory";
-        case ECUCUL_INVAL:
-            return "invalid argument";
-        case ECUCUL_RANGE:
-            return "argument out of bounds";
-        default:
-            return "unknown error";
-    }
-}
-