From: David Wells <wellsd2@rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 20:37:25 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Remove a check for GCC 4.4.
X-Git-Tag: v9.0.0-rc1~1332^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e30bfe77fc2a057a6c92f915e91f13d5f6658508;p=dealii.git

Remove a check for GCC 4.4.

We no longer support this compiler.
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diff --git a/cmake/checks/check_03_compiler_bugs.cmake b/cmake/checks/check_03_compiler_bugs.cmake
index 74d2fad690..cb6871ea0e 100644
--- a/cmake/checks/check_03_compiler_bugs.cmake
+++ b/cmake/checks/check_03_compiler_bugs.cmake
@@ -44,23 +44,6 @@ IF(DEAL_II_WRETURN_TYPE_CONST_QUALIFIER_BUG)
 ENDIF()
 
 
-#
-# gcc 4.4 has an interesting problem in that it doesn't
-# care for one of BOOST signals2's header files and produces
-# dozens of pages of error messages of the form
-#   warning: invoking macro BOOST_PP_CAT argument 1: \
-#   empty macro arguments are undefined in ISO C90 and ISO C++98
-# This can be avoided by not using -pedantic for this compiler.
-# For all other versions, we use this flag, however.
-#
-# - Wolfgang Bangerth, Matthias Maier, rewritten 2012
-#
-IF(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU" AND
-   CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION MATCHES "4.4.")
-  STRIP_FLAG(DEAL_II_CXX_FLAGS "-pedantic")
-ENDIF()
-
-
 #
 # In some cases, we would like to name partial specializations
 # as friends. However, the standard forbids us to do so. But