Raise the minimum GCC version to 12.1 [BZ #32539]

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H.J. Lu Feb. 12, 2025, 4:53 a.m. UTC
  For all Linux distros with glibc 2.40 which I can find, GCC 14.2 is used
to compile glibc 2.40:

OS                    GCC      URL
AOSC                  14.2.0   https://aosc.io/
Arch Linux            14.2.0   https://archlinux.org/
ArchPOWER             14.2.0   https://archlinuxpower.org/
Artix                 14.2.0   https://artixlinux.org/
Debian                14.2.0   https://www.debian.org/
Devuan                14.2.0   https://www.devuan.org/
Exherbo               14.2.0   https://www.exherbolinux.org/
Fedora                14.2.1   https://fedoraproject.org/
Gentoo                14.2.1   https://gentoo.org/
Kali Linux            14.2.0   https://www.kali.org/
KaOS                  14.2.0   https://kaosx.us/
LiGurOS               14.2.0   https://liguros.gitlab.io/
Mageia                14.2.0   https://www.mageia.org/en/
Manjaro               14.2.0   https://manjaro.org/
NixOS                 14.2.0   https://nixos.org/
openmamba             14.2.0   https://openmamba.org/
OpenMandriva          14.2.0   https://openmandriva.org/
openSUSE              14.2.0   https://www.opensuse.org/
Parabola              14.2.0   https://www.parabola.nu/
PLD Linux             14.2.0   https://pld-linux.org/
PureOS                14.2.0   https://pureos.net/
Raspbian              14.2.0   http://raspbian.org/
Slackware             14.2.0   http://www.slackware.com/
Solus                 14.2.0   https://getsol.us/
T2 SDE                14.2.0   http://t2sde.org/
Ubuntu                14.2.0   https://www.ubuntu.com/
Wikidata              14.2.0   https://wikidata.org/

Support older versions of GCC to build glibc 2.42:

1. Need to work around bugs in older versions of GCC.
2. Can't use the new features in newer versions of GCC, which may be
required for new features, like _Float16 which requires GCC 12.1 or
above, in glibc,

The main benefit of supporting older versions of GCC is easier backport
of bug fixes to the older releases of glibc, which can be mitigated by
avoiding incompatible features in newer versions of GCC for critical bug
fixes.  Require GCC 12.1 or newer to build.  Remove GCC version check for
PowerPC and s390x.

TEST_CC and TEST_CXX can be used to test the glibc build with the older
versions of GCC.

For glibc developers who are using Linux OSes which don't come with GCC
12.1 or newer, they should build and install GCC 12.1 or newer to work
on glibc.

This fixes BZ #32539.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
---
 INSTALL                                      | 23 +-----
 configure                                    |  3 +-
 configure.ac                                 |  3 +-
 manual/install.texi                          | 22 +-----
 sysdeps/s390/configure                       | 40 ----------
 sysdeps/s390/configure.ac                    | 18 -----
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure    | 83 --------------------
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure.ac | 34 --------
 8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 217 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Carlos O'Donell March 3, 2025, 2:50 p.m. UTC | #1
On 2/11/25 11:53 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> For all Linux distros with glibc 2.40 which I can find, GCC 14.2 is used
> to compile glibc 2.40:
> 
> OS                    GCC      URL
> AOSC                  14.2.0   https://aosc.io/
> Arch Linux            14.2.0   https://archlinux.org/
> ArchPOWER             14.2.0   https://archlinuxpower.org/
> Artix                 14.2.0   https://artixlinux.org/
> Debian                14.2.0   https://www.debian.org/
> Devuan                14.2.0   https://www.devuan.org/
> Exherbo               14.2.0   https://www.exherbolinux.org/
> Fedora                14.2.1   https://fedoraproject.org/
> Gentoo                14.2.1   https://gentoo.org/
> Kali Linux            14.2.0   https://www.kali.org/
> KaOS                  14.2.0   https://kaosx.us/
> LiGurOS               14.2.0   https://liguros.gitlab.io/
> Mageia                14.2.0   https://www.mageia.org/en/
> Manjaro               14.2.0   https://manjaro.org/
> NixOS                 14.2.0   https://nixos.org/
> openmamba             14.2.0   https://openmamba.org/
> OpenMandriva          14.2.0   https://openmandriva.org/
> openSUSE              14.2.0   https://www.opensuse.org/
> Parabola              14.2.0   https://www.parabola.nu/
> PLD Linux             14.2.0   https://pld-linux.org/
> PureOS                14.2.0   https://pureos.net/
> Raspbian              14.2.0   http://raspbian.org/
> Slackware             14.2.0   http://www.slackware.com/
> Solus                 14.2.0   https://getsol.us/
> T2 SDE                14.2.0   http://t2sde.org/
> Ubuntu                14.2.0   https://www.ubuntu.com/
> Wikidata              14.2.0   https://wikidata.org/
> 
> Support older versions of GCC to build glibc 2.42:
> 
> 1. Need to work around bugs in older versions of GCC.
> 2. Can't use the new features in newer versions of GCC, which may be
> required for new features, like _Float16 which requires GCC 12.1 or
> above, in glibc,
> 
> The main benefit of supporting older versions of GCC is easier backport
> of bug fixes to the older releases of glibc, which can be mitigated by
> avoiding incompatible features in newer versions of GCC for critical bug
> fixes.  Require GCC 12.1 or newer to build.  Remove GCC version check for
> PowerPC and s390x.
> 
> TEST_CC and TEST_CXX can be used to test the glibc build with the older
> versions of GCC.
> 
> For glibc developers who are using Linux OSes which don't come with GCC
> 12.1 or newer, they should build and install GCC 12.1 or newer to work
> on glibc.
> 
> This fixes BZ #32539.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>

This is great work and the one blocker we have here is that all pre-commit CI should
be updated to pass after this commit.

We have ensured that the Red Hat pre-commit CI is using a new enough compiler since
we pull and build the latest stable release Fedora container.

Adhemerval, Do you have any status you can share about the Linaro pre-commit CI
builder upgrades? I think those upgrades would provide a new enough compiler.
  
H.J. Lu March 6, 2025, 12:31 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/11/25 11:53 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > For all Linux distros with glibc 2.40 which I can find, GCC 14.2 is used
> > to compile glibc 2.40:
> >
> > OS                    GCC      URL
> > AOSC                  14.2.0   https://aosc.io/
> > Arch Linux            14.2.0   https://archlinux.org/
> > ArchPOWER             14.2.0   https://archlinuxpower.org/
> > Artix                 14.2.0   https://artixlinux.org/
> > Debian                14.2.0   https://www.debian.org/
> > Devuan                14.2.0   https://www.devuan.org/
> > Exherbo               14.2.0   https://www.exherbolinux.org/
> > Fedora                14.2.1   https://fedoraproject.org/
> > Gentoo                14.2.1   https://gentoo.org/
> > Kali Linux            14.2.0   https://www.kali.org/
> > KaOS                  14.2.0   https://kaosx.us/
> > LiGurOS               14.2.0   https://liguros.gitlab.io/
> > Mageia                14.2.0   https://www.mageia.org/en/
> > Manjaro               14.2.0   https://manjaro.org/
> > NixOS                 14.2.0   https://nixos.org/
> > openmamba             14.2.0   https://openmamba.org/
> > OpenMandriva          14.2.0   https://openmandriva.org/
> > openSUSE              14.2.0   https://www.opensuse.org/
> > Parabola              14.2.0   https://www.parabola.nu/
> > PLD Linux             14.2.0   https://pld-linux.org/
> > PureOS                14.2.0   https://pureos.net/
> > Raspbian              14.2.0   http://raspbian.org/
> > Slackware             14.2.0   http://www.slackware.com/
> > Solus                 14.2.0   https://getsol.us/
> > T2 SDE                14.2.0   http://t2sde.org/
> > Ubuntu                14.2.0   https://www.ubuntu.com/
> > Wikidata              14.2.0   https://wikidata.org/
> >
> > Support older versions of GCC to build glibc 2.42:
> >
> > 1. Need to work around bugs in older versions of GCC.
> > 2. Can't use the new features in newer versions of GCC, which may be
> > required for new features, like _Float16 which requires GCC 12.1 or
> > above, in glibc,
> >
> > The main benefit of supporting older versions of GCC is easier backport
> > of bug fixes to the older releases of glibc, which can be mitigated by
> > avoiding incompatible features in newer versions of GCC for critical bug
> > fixes.  Require GCC 12.1 or newer to build.  Remove GCC version check for
> > PowerPC and s390x.
> >
> > TEST_CC and TEST_CXX can be used to test the glibc build with the older
> > versions of GCC.
> >
> > For glibc developers who are using Linux OSes which don't come with GCC
> > 12.1 or newer, they should build and install GCC 12.1 or newer to work
> > on glibc.
> >
> > This fixes BZ #32539.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>
> This is great work and the one blocker we have here is that all pre-commit CI should
> be updated to pass after this commit.
>
> We have ensured that the Red Hat pre-commit CI is using a new enough compiler since
> we pull and build the latest stable release Fedora container.
>
> Adhemerval, Do you have any status you can share about the Linaro pre-commit CI
> builder upgrades? I think those upgrades would provide a new enough compiler.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.

This is what I got from Maxim when the Linaro pre-commit CI build
failed my patch.

H.J.
----
> On Feb 12, 2025, at 18:54, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM Maxim Kuvyrkov
> <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi H.J.,
>>
>> This particular CI pipeline builds glibc using system compiler in Ubuntu 22.04 environment.  So GCC version is GCC 11.4 .
>
> If my patch is accepted, you need to update GCC in your CI.

Yes, this is not a problem; we will switch to Ubuntu 24.04 soon.
  
Maxim Kuvyrkov March 10, 2025, 7:35 a.m. UTC | #3
Hi Carlos,
Hi H.J.,

We have switched Linaro CI to Ubuntu 24.04 images over the weekend; it now has recent-enough GCC.

Thanks,

--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
https://www.linaro.org

> On Mar 6, 2025, at 13:31, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2/11/25 11:53 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> For all Linux distros with glibc 2.40 which I can find, GCC 14.2 is used
>>> to compile glibc 2.40:
>>> 
>>> OS                    GCC      URL
>>> AOSC                  14.2.0   https://aosc.io/
>>> Arch Linux            14.2.0   https://archlinux.org/
>>> ArchPOWER             14.2.0   https://archlinuxpower.org/
>>> Artix                 14.2.0   https://artixlinux.org/
>>> Debian                14.2.0   https://www.debian.org/
>>> Devuan                14.2.0   https://www.devuan.org/
>>> Exherbo               14.2.0   https://www.exherbolinux.org/
>>> Fedora                14.2.1   https://fedoraproject.org/
>>> Gentoo                14.2.1   https://gentoo.org/
>>> Kali Linux            14.2.0   https://www.kali.org/
>>> KaOS                  14.2.0   https://kaosx.us/
>>> LiGurOS               14.2.0   https://liguros.gitlab.io/
>>> Mageia                14.2.0   https://www.mageia.org/en/
>>> Manjaro               14.2.0   https://manjaro.org/
>>> NixOS                 14.2.0   https://nixos.org/
>>> openmamba             14.2.0   https://openmamba.org/
>>> OpenMandriva          14.2.0   https://openmandriva.org/
>>> openSUSE              14.2.0   https://www.opensuse.org/
>>> Parabola              14.2.0   https://www.parabola.nu/
>>> PLD Linux             14.2.0   https://pld-linux.org/
>>> PureOS                14.2.0   https://pureos.net/
>>> Raspbian              14.2.0   http://raspbian.org/
>>> Slackware             14.2.0   http://www.slackware.com/
>>> Solus                 14.2.0   https://getsol.us/
>>> T2 SDE                14.2.0   http://t2sde.org/
>>> Ubuntu                14.2.0   https://www.ubuntu.com/
>>> Wikidata              14.2.0   https://wikidata.org/
>>> 
>>> Support older versions of GCC to build glibc 2.42:
>>> 
>>> 1. Need to work around bugs in older versions of GCC.
>>> 2. Can't use the new features in newer versions of GCC, which may be
>>> required for new features, like _Float16 which requires GCC 12.1 or
>>> above, in glibc,
>>> 
>>> The main benefit of supporting older versions of GCC is easier backport
>>> of bug fixes to the older releases of glibc, which can be mitigated by
>>> avoiding incompatible features in newer versions of GCC for critical bug
>>> fixes.  Require GCC 12.1 or newer to build.  Remove GCC version check for
>>> PowerPC and s390x.
>>> 
>>> TEST_CC and TEST_CXX can be used to test the glibc build with the older
>>> versions of GCC.
>>> 
>>> For glibc developers who are using Linux OSes which don't come with GCC
>>> 12.1 or newer, they should build and install GCC 12.1 or newer to work
>>> on glibc.
>>> 
>>> This fixes BZ #32539.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>> 
>> This is great work and the one blocker we have here is that all pre-commit CI should
>> be updated to pass after this commit.
>> 
>> We have ensured that the Red Hat pre-commit CI is using a new enough compiler since
>> we pull and build the latest stable release Fedora container.
>> 
>> Adhemerval, Do you have any status you can share about the Linaro pre-commit CI
>> builder upgrades? I think those upgrades would provide a new enough compiler.
>> 
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
> 
> This is what I got from Maxim when the Linaro pre-commit CI build
> failed my patch.
> 
> H.J.
> ----
>> On Feb 12, 2025, at 18:54, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM Maxim Kuvyrkov
>> <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi H.J.,
>>> 
>>> This particular CI pipeline builds glibc using system compiler in Ubuntu 22.04 environment.  So GCC version is GCC 11.4 .
>> 
>> If my patch is accepted, you need to update GCC in your CI.
> 
> Yes, this is not a problem; we will switch to Ubuntu 24.04 soon.
  
Stefan Liebler March 12, 2025, 1:12 p.m. UTC | #4
On 2/12/25 05:53, H.J. Lu wrote:
> For all Linux distros with glibc 2.40 which I can find, GCC 14.2 is used
> to compile glibc 2.40:
> 
> OS                    GCC      URL
> AOSC                  14.2.0   https://aosc.io/
> Arch Linux            14.2.0   https://archlinux.org/
> ArchPOWER             14.2.0   https://archlinuxpower.org/
> Artix                 14.2.0   https://artixlinux.org/
> Debian                14.2.0   https://www.debian.org/
> Devuan                14.2.0   https://www.devuan.org/
> Exherbo               14.2.0   https://www.exherbolinux.org/
> Fedora                14.2.1   https://fedoraproject.org/
> Gentoo                14.2.1   https://gentoo.org/
> Kali Linux            14.2.0   https://www.kali.org/
> KaOS                  14.2.0   https://kaosx.us/
> LiGurOS               14.2.0   https://liguros.gitlab.io/
> Mageia                14.2.0   https://www.mageia.org/en/
> Manjaro               14.2.0   https://manjaro.org/
> NixOS                 14.2.0   https://nixos.org/
> openmamba             14.2.0   https://openmamba.org/
> OpenMandriva          14.2.0   https://openmandriva.org/
> openSUSE              14.2.0   https://www.opensuse.org/
> Parabola              14.2.0   https://www.parabola.nu/
> PLD Linux             14.2.0   https://pld-linux.org/
> PureOS                14.2.0   https://pureos.net/
> Raspbian              14.2.0   http://raspbian.org/
> Slackware             14.2.0   http://www.slackware.com/
> Solus                 14.2.0   https://getsol.us/
> T2 SDE                14.2.0   http://t2sde.org/
> Ubuntu                14.2.0   https://www.ubuntu.com/
> Wikidata              14.2.0   https://wikidata.org/
> 
> Support older versions of GCC to build glibc 2.42:
> 
> 1. Need to work around bugs in older versions of GCC.
> 2. Can't use the new features in newer versions of GCC, which may be
> required for new features, like _Float16 which requires GCC 12.1 or
> above, in glibc,
> 
> The main benefit of supporting older versions of GCC is easier backport
> of bug fixes to the older releases of glibc, which can be mitigated by
> avoiding incompatible features in newer versions of GCC for critical bug
> fixes.  Require GCC 12.1 or newer to build.  Remove GCC version check for
> PowerPC and s390x.
> 
> TEST_CC and TEST_CXX can be used to test the glibc build with the older
> versions of GCC.
> 
> For glibc developers who are using Linux OSes which don't come with GCC
> 12.1 or newer, they should build and install GCC 12.1 or newer to work
> on glibc.
> 
> This fixes BZ #32539.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>

Another question is, if minimum binutils version should also be adjusted?

Currently we have:
configure.ac: # Accept binutils 2.25 or newer.
=> which was released end of 2014. GCC 12.1 was released in 2022.
binutils 2.39 was also released in 2022.

Bye,
Stefan
  

Patch

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a56179a9c9..d3200f271f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -488,31 +488,14 @@  build the GNU C Library:
      As of release time, GNU 'make' 4.4.1 is the newest verified to work
      to build the GNU C Library.
 
-   * GCC 6.2 or newer
+   * GCC 12.1 or newer
 
-     GCC 6.2 or higher is required.  In general it is recommended to use
-     the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for
+     GCC 12.1 or higher is required.  In general it is recommended to
+     use the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for
      building the GNU C Library, as newer compilers usually produce
      better code.  As of release time, GCC 14.2.1 is the newest compiler
      verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
-     For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), a GCC version with
-     support for '-mno-gnu-attribute', '-mabi=ieeelongdouble', and
-     '-mabi=ibmlongdouble' is required.  Likewise, the compiler must
-     also support passing '-mlong-double-128' with the preceding
-     options.  As of release, this implies GCC 7.4 and newer (excepting
-     GCC 7.5.0, see GCC PR94200).  These additional features are
-     required for building the GNU C Library with support for IEEE long
-     double.
-
-     For ARC architecture builds, GCC 8.3 or higher is needed.
-
-     For s390x architecture builds, GCC 7.1 or higher is needed (See gcc
-     Bug 98269).
-
-     For AArch64 architecture builds with mathvec enabled, GCC 10 or
-     higher is needed due to dependency on arm_sve.h.
-
      For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
      been built with support for GNU indirect functions.  This ensures
      that correct debugging information is generated for functions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index eb8abd0054..e6f5c16f58 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5763,6 +5763,7 @@  if test $ac_verc_fail = yes; then
 fi
 
 
+# Require GCC 12.1 to build.
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if $CC is sufficient to build libc" >&5
 printf %s "checking if $CC is sufficient to build libc... " >&6; }
 if test ${libc_cv_compiler_ok+y}
@@ -5777,7 +5778,7 @@  int
 main (void)
 {
 
-#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 6 || (__GNUC__ == 6 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 2)
+#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 12 || (__GNUC__ == 12 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1)
 #error insufficient compiler
 #endif
   ;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 050bfa65e3..229f450d14 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -573,9 +573,10 @@  AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(BISON, bison, --version,
   [bison (GNU Bison) \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
   [2.7*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*], critic_missing="$critic_missing bison")
 
+# Require GCC 12.1 to build.
 AC_CACHE_CHECK([if $CC is sufficient to build libc], libc_cv_compiler_ok, [
 AC_PREPROC_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[]], [[
-#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 6 || (__GNUC__ == 6 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 2)
+#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 12 || (__GNUC__ == 12 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1)
 #error insufficient compiler
 #endif]])],
 	       [libc_cv_compiler_ok=yes],
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index d001e8220b..7fcdda9146 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -530,32 +530,14 @@  As of release time, GNU @code{make} 4.4.1 is the newest verified to work
 to build @theglibc{}.
 
 @item
-GCC 6.2 or newer
+GCC 12.1 or newer
 
-GCC 6.2 or higher is required.  In general it is recommended to use
+GCC 12.1 or higher is required.  In general it is recommended to use
 the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for building
 @theglibc{}, as newer compilers usually produce better code.  As of
 release time, GCC 14.2.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build
 @theglibc{}.
 
-For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), a GCC version with support
-for @option{-mno-gnu-attribute}, @option{-mabi=ieeelongdouble}, and
-@option{-mabi=ibmlongdouble} is required.  Likewise, the compiler must also
-support passing @option{-mlong-double-128} with the preceding options.  As
-of release, this implies GCC 7.4 and newer (excepting GCC 7.5.0, see GCC
-PR94200).  These additional features are required for building the GNU C
-Library with support for IEEE long double.
-
-@c powerpc64le performs an autoconf test to verify the compiler compiles with
-@c commands like "$CC -c foo.c -mabi=ibmlongdouble -mlong-double-128".
-
-For ARC architecture builds, GCC 8.3 or higher is needed.
-
-For s390x architecture builds, GCC 7.1 or higher is needed (See gcc Bug 98269).
-
-For AArch64 architecture builds with mathvec enabled, GCC 10 or higher is needed
-due to dependency on arm_sve.h.
-
 For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has been built with
 support for GNU indirect functions.  This ensures that correct debugging
 information is generated for functions selected by IFUNC resolvers.  This
diff --git a/sysdeps/s390/configure b/sysdeps/s390/configure
index 67c3755c16..97f52524fb 100644
--- a/sysdeps/s390/configure
+++ b/sysdeps/s390/configure
@@ -309,46 +309,6 @@  then
 
 fi
 
-
-
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if $CC is sufficient to build libc on s390x" >&5
-printf %s "checking if $CC is sufficient to build libc on s390x... " >&6; }
-if test ${libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else case e in #(
-  e)
-cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-
-int
-main (void)
-{
-
-#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 7 || (__GNUC__ == 7 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1)
-#error insufficient compiler for building on s390x
-#endif
-
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_cpp "$LINENO"
-then :
-  libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x=yes
-else case e in #(
-  e) libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x=no ;;
-esac
-fi
-rm -f conftest.err conftest.i conftest.$ac_ext ;;
-esac
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x" >&6; }
-if test "$libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x" != yes; then
-   critic_missing="$critic_missing On s390x, GCC >= 7.1.0 is required."
-fi
-
 test -n "$critic_missing" && as_fn_error $? "
 *** $critic_missing" "$LINENO" 5
 
diff --git a/sysdeps/s390/configure.ac b/sysdeps/s390/configure.ac
index 89c3e5b211..496866b850 100644
--- a/sysdeps/s390/configure.ac
+++ b/sysdeps/s390/configure.ac
@@ -161,23 +161,5 @@  then
   AC_DEFINE(HAVE_S390_MIN_ARCH13_ZARCH_ASM_SUPPORT)
 fi
 
-
-dnl test if GCC is new enough. See gcc "Bug 98269 - gcc 6.5.0
-dnl __builtin_add_overflow() with small uint32_t values incorrectly detects
-dnl overflow
-dnl (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98269)
-AC_CACHE_CHECK([if $CC is sufficient to build libc on s390x],
-libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x, [
-AC_PREPROC_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[]], [[
-#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 7 || (__GNUC__ == 7 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1)
-#error insufficient compiler for building on s390x
-#endif
-]])],
-	[libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x=yes],
-	[libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x=no])])
-if test "$libc_cv_compiler_ok_on_s390x" != yes; then
-   critic_missing="$critic_missing On s390x, GCC >= 7.1.0 is required."
-fi
-
 test -n "$critic_missing" && AC_MSG_ERROR([
 *** $critic_missing])
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure
index 61ae675c1a..6fa7589530 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure
@@ -1,89 +1,6 @@ 
 # This file is generated from configure.ac by Autoconf.  DO NOT EDIT!
  # Local configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/.
 
-
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC $CFLAGS -mlong-double-128 uses IBM extended format" >&5
-printf %s "checking whether $CC $CFLAGS -mlong-double-128 uses IBM extended format... " >&6; }
-if test ${libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else case e in #(
-  e) save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mlong-double-128"
-cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <float.h>
-int
-main (void)
-{
-
-#if LDBL_MANT_DIG != 106
-# error "compiler doesn't implement IBM extended format of long double"
-#endif
-long double foobar (long double x) { return x; }
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"
-then :
-  libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm=yes
-else case e in #(
-  e) libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm=no ;;
-esac
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext
-CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" ;;
-esac
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm" >&6; }
-
-if test "$libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm" = no; then
-  { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC $CFLAGS supports -mabi=ibmlongdouble" >&5
-printf %s "checking whether $CC $CFLAGS supports -mabi=ibmlongdouble... " >&6; }
-if test ${libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else case e in #(
-  e)   save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mlong-double-128 -mabi=ibmlongdouble"
-  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <float.h>
-int
-main (void)
-{
-
-#if LDBL_MANT_DIG != 106
-# error "compiler doesn't implement IBM extended format of long double"
-#endif
-long double foobar (long double x) { return x; }
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"
-then :
-  libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble=yes
-else case e in #(
-  e) libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble=no ;;
-esac
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext
-  CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" ;;
-esac
-fi
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble" >&6; }
-
-  if test "$libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble" = yes; then
-    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mabi=ibmlongdouble"
-  else
-    as_fn_error $? "this configuration requires -mlong-double-128 IBM extended format support" "$LINENO" 5
-  fi
-fi
-
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for linker that supports --no-tls-get-addr-optimize" >&5
 printf %s "checking for linker that supports --no-tls-get-addr-optimize... " >&6; }
 libc_linker_feature=no
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure.ac b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure.ac
index 8d2ec60f68..bcf0c62442 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure.ac
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/configure.ac
@@ -2,40 +2,6 @@  sinclude(./aclocal.m4)dnl Autoconf lossage
 GLIBC_PROVIDES dnl See aclocal.m4 in the top level source directory.
 # Local configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/.
 
-AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether $CC $CFLAGS -mlong-double-128 uses IBM extended format,
-	       libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm, [dnl
-save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mlong-double-128"
-AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <float.h>]], [[
-#if LDBL_MANT_DIG != 106
-# error "compiler doesn't implement IBM extended format of long double"
-#endif
-long double foobar (long double x) { return x; }]])],
-	       libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm=yes,
-	       libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm=no)
-CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"])
-
-if test "$libc_cv_mlong_double_128ibm" = no; then
-  AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether $CC $CFLAGS supports -mabi=ibmlongdouble,
-		 libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble, [dnl
-  save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mlong-double-128 -mabi=ibmlongdouble"
-  AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <float.h>]], [[
-#if LDBL_MANT_DIG != 106
-# error "compiler doesn't implement IBM extended format of long double"
-#endif
-long double foobar (long double x) { return x; }]])],
-		 libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble=yes,
-		 libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble=no)
-  CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"])
-
-  if test "$libc_cv_mabi_ibmlongdouble" = yes; then
-    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mabi=ibmlongdouble"
-  else
-    AC_MSG_ERROR([this configuration requires -mlong-double-128 IBM extended format support])
-  fi
-fi
-
 LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE([--no-tls-get-addr-optimize], [-Wl,--no-tls-get-addr-optimize],
                     [libc_cv_tls_get_addr_optimize=yes], [libc_cv_tls_get_addr_optimize=no])
 LIBC_CONFIG_VAR([have-tls-get-addr-optimize], [$libc_cv_tls_get_addr_optimize])