1 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 90c0807347..ae629a3127 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3529,7 +3529,7 @@ fi
 ##########################################
 # libssh probe
 if test "$libssh" != "no" ; then
-  if $pkg_config --exists libssh; then
+  if $pkg_config --exists "libssh >= 0.8.7"; then
     libssh_cflags=$($pkg_config libssh --cflags)
     libssh_libs=$($pkg_config libssh --libs)
     libssh=yes
@@ -3542,23 +3542,6 @@ if test "$libssh" != "no" ; then
 fi
 
 ##########################################
-# Check for libssh 0.8
-# This is done like this instead of using the LIBSSH_VERSION_* and
-# SSH_VERSION_* macros because some distributions in the past shipped
-# snapshots of the future 0.8 from Git, and those snapshots did not
-# have updated version numbers (still referring to 0.7.0).
-
-if test "$libssh" = "yes"; then
-  cat > $TMPC <<EOF
-#include <libssh/libssh.h>
-int main(void) { return ssh_get_server_publickey(NULL, NULL); }
-EOF
-  if compile_prog "$libssh_cflags" "$libssh_libs"; then
-    libssh_cflags="-DHAVE_LIBSSH_0_8 $libssh_cflags"
-  fi
-fi
-
-##########################################
 # linux-aio probe
 
 if test "$linux_aio" != "no" ; then