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.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 22aa1b9372..1e9eba10b7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5272,34 +5272,6 @@ if test $ac_verc_fail = yes; then
 fi
 
 
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files... " >&6; }
-if ${libc_cv_need_minus_P+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  cat > conftest.S <<EOF
-#include "confdefs.h"
-/* Nothing whatsoever.  */
-EOF
-if { ac_try='${CC-cc} $CPPFLAGS $ASFLAGS -c conftest.S 1>&5'
-  { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${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_need_minus_P=no
-else
-  libc_cv_need_minus_P=yes
-fi
-rm -f conftest*
-fi
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_need_minus_P" >&5
-$as_echo "$libc_cv_need_minus_P" >&6; }
-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
-
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for .set assembler directive" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for .set assembler directive... " >&6; }
 if ${libc_cv_asm_set_directive+:} false; then :