Remove configure flag --enable-anachronistic-dependencies

This flag was a kludge and is not used anymore anyway.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 183487025131b0307a127328dae1b44561dbf7a1..5d1775cd8816baebf6756eab076a44b532cc3712 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -272,13 +272,6 @@ Optional Features
    Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly
    or you do not need it.
 
-`--enable-anachronistic-dependencies'
-   If you use this option, some of the checks for dependent libraries
-   will be relaxed, permitting configure to succeed when older versions
-   of libraries are detected.   Use of this option is not recommended.
-   If you use it, some features may be missing and the build may fail
-   with obscure error messages.
-
 `--enable-relocatable'
    This option is useful for building a package which can be installed
    into an arbitrary directory and freely copied to any other directory.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d68192994084ef461d7df913596ff877dda1a74c..cffba95d675e1581c4b57a5395bbfd912f3d37ac 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
 m4_pattern_forbid([PKG_CHECK_MODULES])
 PSPP_CHECK_CLICKSEQUENCE
 
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(
-  anachronistic-dependencies, 
-  [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-anachronistic-dependencies], 
-                  [Attempt to allow building against older versions of dependent libraries])])
-
 PSPP_ENABLE_OPTION(-Wdeclaration-after-statement)
 PSPP_ENABLE_WERROR