build: remove linking librt for backwards compatibility

Now that we require glibc 2.17+, #17538, we can remove linking in librt
for backwards compatibility purposes. The clock_* functions from librt
were merged into glibc as part of the 2.17 release.

* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
  directly in the main C library.  Previously it was necessary to link with
  -lrt to use these functions.  This change has the effect that a
  single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
  is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
  library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
  multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2012/msg00001.html

Note that librt is already not linked by the RISC-V and AARCH64 binaries.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 875491fb99..f28c2760cb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -693,10 +693,6 @@ AX_GCC_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE([dllimport])
 
 if test x$use_glibc_compat != xno; then
 
-  dnl glibc absorbed clock_gettime in 2.17. librt (its previous location) is safe to link
-  dnl in anyway for back-compat.
-  AC_CHECK_LIB([rt],[clock_gettime],, AC_MSG_ERROR(librt missing))
-
   dnl __fdelt_chk's params and return type have changed from long unsigned int to long int.
   dnl See which one is present here.
   AC_MSG_CHECKING(__fdelt_chk type)