gh-98948: Remove obsolete readelf dependency

serge-sans-paille · serge-sans-paille · commit 26b6505782b9 · 2022-11-01T08:12:57.000+01:00
This got introduced in commit 5884449 to determine if readline is already linked against curses or tinfo in the setup.py, which is no longer present.
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ CC=		@CC@
 CXX=		@CXX@
 LINKCC=		@LINKCC@
 AR=		@AR@
-READELF=	@READELF@
 SOABI=		@SOABI@
 LDVERSION=	@LDVERSION@
 LIBPYTHON=	@LIBPYTHON@
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/config.site-wasm32-emscripten b/Tools/wasm/config.site-wasm32-emscripten
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ ac_cv_buggy_getaddrinfo=no
 ac_cv_file__dev_ptmx=no
 ac_cv_file__dev_ptc=no
 
-# dummy readelf, Emscripten build does not need readelf.
-ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF=true
-
 # new undefined symbols / unsupported features
 ac_cv_func_posix_spawn=no
 ac_cv_func_posix_spawnp=no
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/config.site-wasm32-wasi b/Tools/wasm/config.site-wasm32-wasi
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ ac_cv_buggy_getaddrinfo=no
 ac_cv_file__dev_ptmx=no
 ac_cv_file__dev_ptc=no
 
-# dummy readelf, WASI build does not need readelf.
-ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF=true
-
 # get/setrlimit are not supported
 ac_cv_header_sys_resource_h=no
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
@@ -1617,17 +1617,6 @@ then
         ARFLAGS="rcs"
 fi
 
-AC_CHECK_TOOLS([READELF], [readelf], [:])
-if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
-    case "$READELF" in
-	readelf|:)
-	AC_MSG_ERROR([readelf for the host is required for cross builds])
-	;;
-    esac
-fi
-AC_SUBST(READELF)
-
-
 case $MACHDEP in
 hp*|HP*)
 	# install -d does not work on HP-UX
