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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-10-27 10:46:15 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-10-27 10:46:15 +0000
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Remove configure test for needing -P for .S files.
There is a configure test for "whether we need to use -P to assemble
.S files".

I think this test is long obsolete.  I don't have a specific reference
to a binutils change or version that obsoleted this test, but: (a) we
only support GNU binutils; (b) it looks like every architecture
supported by glibc has '#' as a line comment character in its gas
port; (c) in any case, if the (compiler, assembler) combination in use
cannot compile a .S file without special options, that would clearly
be a substantially broken combination, which I don't think we need to
allow for at all.

The test in question was added by:

Thu Jan 27 16:46:03 1994  Roland McGrath  (roland@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu)

        * configure.in (asm-CPPFLAGS): Add new check to see if assembling
        a .S file loses without -P.  If so, set asm-CPPFLAGS=-P in config.make.

This patch removes the test and the reference to this issue in the
comment on the default empty definition of asm-CPPFLAGS.  (Various
other settings of asm-CPPFLAGS remain in sysdeps Makefile fragments.)

Tested for x86_64 and x86 (testsuite, and that installed shared
libraries are unchanged by the patch).

	* configure.ac (libc_cv_need_minus_P): Remove configure test.
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* Makeconfig (asm-CPPFLAGS): Remove reference to -P in comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
-rw-r--r--configure.ac17
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6947555be4..4879c48db7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1080,23 +1080,6 @@ AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(BISON, bison, --version,
 		  [2.7*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*],
 		  BISON=no)
 
-AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files,
-	       libc_cv_need_minus_P, [dnl
-cat > conftest.S <<EOF
-#include "confdefs.h"
-/* Nothing whatsoever.  */
-EOF
-if AC_TRY_COMMAND(${CC-cc} $CPPFLAGS $ASFLAGS -c conftest.S 1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD); then
-  libc_cv_need_minus_P=no
-else
-  libc_cv_need_minus_P=yes
-fi
-rm -f conftest*])
-if test $libc_cv_need_minus_P = yes; then
-  config_vars="$config_vars
-asm-CPPFLAGS = -P # The assembler can't grok cpp's # line directives."
-fi
-
 AC_CACHE_CHECK(for .set assembler directive, libc_cv_asm_set_directive, [dnl
 cat > conftest.s <<EOF
 .text