diff --git a/compiler/cpp/Makefile.am b/compiler/cpp/Makefile.am
index 13fed07..7a89c54 100644
--- a/compiler/cpp/Makefile.am
+++ b/compiler/cpp/Makefile.am
@@ -109,6 +109,5 @@
 
 clean-local:
 	$(RM) thriftl.cc thrifty.cc thrifty.h thrifty.hh version.h windows/version.h
-	echo '#include "thrifty.h"' > thrifty.hh
 
 src/main.cc: version.h
diff --git a/compiler/cpp/src/thriftl.ll b/compiler/cpp/src/thriftl.ll
index 8accf4c..8538652 100644
--- a/compiler/cpp/src/thriftl.ll
+++ b/compiler/cpp/src/thriftl.ll
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
  * Must be included AFTER parse/t_program.h, but I can't remember why anymore
  * because I wrote this a while ago.
  */
-#include "thrifty.hh"
+#include "thrifty.h"
 
 void thrift_reserved_keyword(char* keyword) {
   yyerror("Cannot use reserved language keyword: \"%s\"\n", keyword);