remove build system workaround for GCC 3

We no longer support anything below GCC 4.4.7.

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 428bb3185a19a1ceb66e2b17b15b360e7ff98e22..983dabe2adbb997d2ad24e2772c6340f1cb0fa8a 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Cgraph's agheap() API has been removed
 - Autotools build system support for eFence has been removed
 - Building Graphviz with ICC defaults to -O2 instead of -O0
+- Build system work arounds for GCC 3 have been removed
 
 ### Fixed
 - gvpr: line numbers in gvpr errors/warnings are incorrect #1594

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 72308fca0f70c5ca3861a0c2e48f4f6cff9c6abc..c1f184b9a0c2df9a79024c41a7ba1ea0f8b1b744 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -381,17 +381,6 @@ else
                CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wall -ffast-math"
                    ;;
            * )
-           # -Wno-unused-parameter only needed for bug in gcc3
-           # this test from: http://cvs.auriga.wearlab.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dillo/configure.in?rev=1.90;content-type=text%2Fplain;cvsroot=dillo
-                       if test "`$CC -v 2>&1 | $EGREP 'version 3'`" != ""; then
-                       CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-unused-parameter"
-                               # bug 1199
-                               case "${host_cpu}" in
-                               sparc* )
-                               CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -DUSE_MAXFLOAT"
-                                       ;;
-                               esac
-                   fi
                CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wall -ffast-math"
                ;;
            esac