powerpc: drop R_PPC_REL16 check

Current minimum support binutils (2.22) supports R_PPC_REL16 as default,
so no need to extra configure checks.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/configure b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/configure
index fe5a792348..29cfd53e8b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/configure
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/configure
@@ -1,34 +1,6 @@
 # This file is generated from configure.ac by Autoconf.  DO NOT EDIT!
  # Local configure fragment for sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32.
 
-# See whether gas has R_PPC_REL16 relocs.
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for R_PPC_REL16 gas support" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for R_PPC_REL16 gas support... " >&6; }
-if ${libc_cv_ppc_rel16+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  cat > conftest.s <<\EOF
-	.text
-	addis 11,30,_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-.@ha
-EOF
-if { ac_try='${CC-cc} -c $CFLAGS conftest.s 1>&5'
-  { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \"$ac_try\""; } >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  test $ac_status = 0; }; }; then
-  libc_cv_ppc_rel16=yes
-else
-  libc_cv_ppc_rel16=no
-fi
-rm -f conftest*
-fi
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_ppc_rel16" >&5
-$as_echo "$libc_cv_ppc_rel16" >&6; }
-if test $libc_cv_ppc_rel16 = no; then
-  as_fn_error $? "R_PPC_REL16 is not supported. Binutils is too old." "$LINENO" 5
-fi
-
 # See whether GCC uses -msecure-plt.
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for -msecure-plt by default" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for -msecure-plt by default... " >&6; }