diff --git a/src/tool_metalink.h b/src/tool_metalink.h
index 0a69c459e..2f66e6a45 100644
--- a/src/tool_metalink.h
+++ b/src/tool_metalink.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ void metalink_cleanup(void);
 
 #define count_next_metalink_resource(x)  0
 #define clean_metalink(x)  Curl_nop_stmt
+#define metalink_cleanup(x) Curl_nop_stmt
 
 #endif /* USE_METALINK */
 
diff --git a/src/tool_operhlp.c b/src/tool_operhlp.c
index 9078b9564..631488727 100644
--- a/src/tool_operhlp.c
+++ b/src/tool_operhlp.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -31,11 +31,7 @@
 #include "tool_convert.h"
 #include "tool_operhlp.h"
 #include "tool_version.h"
-
-#ifdef USE_METALINK
-/* import the declaration of metalink_cleanup() */
-#  include "tool_metalink.h"
-#endif
+#include "tool_metalink.h"
 
 #include "memdebug.h" /* keep this as LAST include */
 
@@ -220,9 +216,7 @@ void main_free(void)
 {
   curl_global_cleanup();
   convert_cleanup();
-#ifdef USE_METALINK
   metalink_cleanup();
-#endif
 }
 
 #ifdef CURLDEBUG