Bug 468606 - build: remove "Valgrind relies on GCC" check/output

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 696720e97e16131ee1ebdd699b808285e8385376..4b18ad9d0a58f054efb1b4cec85c3991dc397297 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
 467839  Gdbserver: Improve compatibility of library directory name
 468401  [PATCH] Add a style file for clang-format
 468556  Build failure for vgdb
+468606  build: remove "Valgrind relies on GCC" check/output
 n-i-bz  FreeBSD rfork syscall fail with EINVAL or ENOSYS rather than VG_(unimplemented)
 
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a439ec85d9c01f59bdd501f7f75034b118dd3de3..8217136d9e10842e7aea5f5dfdb82924e7825f59 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -103,12 +103,6 @@ if test "x$LTO_AR" = "x"; then
 fi
 AC_ARG_VAR([LTO_AR],[Archiver command for link time optimisation])
 
-
-# Check for the compiler support
-if test "${GCC}" != "yes" ; then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([Valgrind relies on GCC to be compiled])
-fi
-
 # figure out where perl lives
 AC_PATH_PROG(PERL, perl)