diff --git a/gdb/config.in b/gdb/config.in
index 8c5a710..fb3c315 100644
--- a/gdb/config.in
+++ b/gdb/config.in
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `btowc' function. */
 #undef HAVE_BTOWC
 
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `canonicalize_file_name' function. */
-#undef HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <cursesX.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_CURSESX_H
 
@@ -327,9 +324,6 @@
 /* Define if Python interpreter is being linked in. */
 #undef HAVE_PYTHON
 
-/* Define to 1 if you have the `realpath' function. */
-#undef HAVE_REALPATH
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `resize_term' function. */
 #undef HAVE_RESIZE_TERM
 
diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 0c04eba..5f52e91 100755
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -10478,7 +10478,7 @@ $as_echo "#define HAVE_WORKING_FORK 1" >>confdefs.h
 
 fi
 
-for ac_func in canonicalize_file_name realpath getrusage getuid getgid \
+for ac_func in getrusage getuid getgid \
 		pipe poll pread pread64 pwrite resize_term \
 		sbrk setpgid setpgrp setsid \
 		sigaction sigprocmask sigsetmask socketpair \
diff --git a/gdb/configure.ac b/gdb/configure.ac
index f8c32ad..84232f2 100644
--- a/gdb/configure.ac
+++ b/gdb/configure.ac
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 
 AC_FUNC_MMAP
 AC_FUNC_VFORK
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([canonicalize_file_name realpath getrusage getuid getgid \
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getrusage getuid getgid \
 		pipe poll pread pread64 pwrite resize_term \
 		sbrk setpgid setpgrp setsid \
 		sigaction sigprocmask sigsetmask socketpair \
diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
index ff5c00d..b3720f6 100644
--- a/gdb/utils.c
+++ b/gdb/utils.c
@@ -2868,67 +2868,6 @@ string_to_core_addr (const char *my_string)
 char *
 gdb_realpath (const char *filename)
 {
-  /* Method 1: The system has a compile time upper bound on a filename
-     path.  Use that and realpath() to canonicalize the name.  This is
-     the most common case.  Note that, if there isn't a compile time
-     upper bound, you want to avoid realpath() at all costs.  */
-#if defined (HAVE_REALPATH) && defined (PATH_MAX)
-  {
-    char buf[PATH_MAX];
-    const char *rp = realpath (filename, buf);
-
-    if (rp == NULL)
-      rp = filename;
-    return xstrdup (rp);
-  }
-#endif /* HAVE_REALPATH */
-
-  /* Method 2: The host system (i.e., GNU) has the function
-     canonicalize_file_name() which malloc's a chunk of memory and
-     returns that, use that.  */
-#if defined(HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME)
-  {
-    char *rp = canonicalize_file_name (filename);
-
-    if (rp == NULL)
-      return xstrdup (filename);
-    else
-      return rp;
-  }
-#endif
-
-  /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-13:
-
-     Method 2a: Use realpath() with a NULL buffer.  Some systems, due
-     to the problems described in method 3, have modified their
-     realpath() implementation so that it will allocate a buffer when
-     NULL is passed in.  Before this can be used, though, some sort of
-     configure time test would need to be added.  Otherwize the code
-     will likely core dump.  */
-
-  /* Method 3: Now we're getting desperate!  The system doesn't have a
-     compile time buffer size and no alternative function.  Query the
-     OS, using pathconf(), for the buffer limit.  Care is needed
-     though, some systems do not limit PATH_MAX (return -1 for
-     pathconf()) making it impossible to pass a correctly sized buffer
-     to realpath() (it could always overflow).  On those systems, we
-     skip this.  */
-#if defined (HAVE_REALPATH) && defined (_PC_PATH_MAX)
-  {
-    /* Find out the max path size.  */
-    long path_max = pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX);
-
-    if (path_max > 0)
-      {
-	/* PATH_MAX is bounded.  */
-	char *buf = alloca (path_max);
-	char *rp = realpath (filename, buf);
-
-	return xstrdup (rp ? rp : filename);
-      }
-  }
-#endif
-
   /* The MS Windows method.  If we don't have realpath, we assume we
      don't have symlinks and just canonicalize to a Windows absolute
      path.  GetFullPath converts ../ and ./ in relative paths to
@@ -2946,6 +2885,13 @@ gdb_realpath (const char *filename)
     if (len > 0 && len < MAX_PATH)
       return xstrdup (buf);
   }
+#else
+  {
+    char *rp = canonicalize_file_name (filename);
+
+    if (rp != NULL)
+      return rp;
+  }
 #endif
 
   /* This system is a lost cause, just dup the buffer.  */
