diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 411522580f..5d8b297b37 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-04-11  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+	* Rules (bench): Remove eval.
+
 2013-04-10  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
 	    Roland McGrath  <roland@hack.frob.com>
 	    Ondrej Bilka  <neleai@seznam.cz>
diff --git a/Rules b/Rules
index d4a0027dd6..e8e111772b 100644
--- a/Rules
+++ b/Rules
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ run-bench = $(test-wrapper-env) \
 bench: $(binaries-bench)
 	for run in $^; do \
 	  echo "Running $${run}"; \
-	  eval $(run-bench) >>  $(objpfx)bench.out-tmp; \
+	  $(run-bench) >>  $(objpfx)bench.out-tmp; \
 	done; \
 	if [ -f $(objpfx)bench.out ]; then \
 	  mv -f $(objpfx)bench.out $(objpfx)bench.out.old; \