diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b686a55df..074ecef985 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Sep 10 13:07:22 2010  NAKAMURA, Hiroshi  <nahi@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/digest/lib/digest.rb: removed unused exception variable
+	  assignment to avoid a warning.
+
 Fri Sep 10 07:29:14 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/etc/etc.c (etc_systmpdir): assume system default tmpdir
diff --git a/ext/digest/lib/digest.rb b/ext/digest/lib/digest.rb
index 857501722e..b46cf9e2bd 100644
--- a/ext/digest/lib/digest.rb
+++ b/ext/digest/lib/digest.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ module Digest
 
     begin
       require lib
-    rescue LoadError => e
+    rescue LoadError
       raise LoadError, "library not found for class Digest::#{name} -- #{lib}", caller(1)
     end
     unless Digest.const_defined?(name)