-# In the case of Linux we need to distinguish which libc is used.
-# This is more cautious than it needs to be. In practice libc5 will always
-# be a symlink, and libc6 will always be a linker control file, but it's
-# easy enough to do a better check, and check the symlink destination or the
-# control file contents and make sure.
-
-Linux) if [ -L /usr/lib/libc.so ]; then
- if [ x"$(file /usr/lib/libc.so | grep "libc.so.5")"x != xx ]; then
- os=Linux-libc5
- fi
- else
- if grep -q libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so; then
- os=Linux-libc5
- fi
- fi
- ;;
+# In the case of Linux we used to distinguish which libc was used so that
+# the old libc5 was supported as well as the current glibc. This support
+# was giving some people problems, so it was removed in June 2005, under
+# the assumption that nobody would be using libc5 any more (it is over seven
+# years old).