[PATCH 1/4] configure: Remove the check for the __thread keyword

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

We recently bumped our minimum required version of GCC to 7.4
and Clang to 6.0, and those compiler versions should support
the __thread keyword already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 configure | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 039467c04b..8fe03b6230 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1749,17 +1749,6 @@ if test "$static" = "yes" ; then
   fi
 fi
 
-# Unconditional check for compiler __thread support
-  cat > $TMPC << EOF
-static __thread int tls_var;
-int main(void) { return tls_var; }
-EOF
-
-if ! compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then
-    error_exit "Your compiler does not support the __thread specifier for " \
-	"Thread-Local Storage (TLS). Please upgrade to a version that does."
-fi
-
 cat > $TMPC << EOF
 
 #ifdef __linux__
-- 
2.27.0