remove Autotools 'sort' discovery

ea6b4c99ec32127619b6e5c3a5ff58be51aa4829 removed the last use of `$SORT` in the
Autotools build system.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e9a994402a18e8f9f22091c5660fe65df8bb6f6b..0bc9b43da4884481f0cd817b28f246ee7fb3490f 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -272,9 +272,6 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_LN_S
 LT_INIT
 
-# prefer GNU variants over, say, Oracle's or Apples
-AC_CHECK_PROGS(SORT,gsort sort,false)
-
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([man-pdfs],
   [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-man-pdfs], [Generate PDFs of man pages (default: auto)])])