--- gdb-8.0.orig/gdb/configure	2017-06-04 17:54:54.000000000 +0200
+++ gdb-8.0/gdb/configure	2017-06-20 22:54:16.961589341 +0200
@@ -14547,93 +14547,6 @@ $as_echo "$gdb_cv_bigtoc" >&6; }
   ;;
 esac
 
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for the dynamic export flag" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for the dynamic export flag... " >&6; }
-dynamic_list=false
-if test "${gdb_native}" = yes; then
-   # The dynamically loaded libthread_db needs access to symbols in the gdb
-   # executable.  Older GNU ld supports --export-dynamic but --dynamic-list
-   # may not be supported there.
-   old_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
-   # Older GNU ld supports --export-dynamic but --dynamic-list it does not.
-   RDYNAMIC="-Wl,--dynamic-list=${srcdir}/proc-service.list"
-   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $RDYNAMIC"
-   if test "${have_libpython}" = no; then
-     cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-
-int
-main ()
-{
-
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  dynamic_list=true
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-   else
-     # Workaround http://bugs.python.org/issue4434 where static
-     # libpythonX.Y.a would get its symbols required for
-     # pythonX.Y/lib-dynload/*.so modules hidden by -Wl,--dynamic-list.
-     # Problem does not happen for the recommended libpythonX.Y.so linkage.
-
-     # Note the workaround for Python
-     # http://bugs.python.org/issue10112 earlier has removed
-     # -export-dynamic from PYTHON_LIBS.  That's exactly what we want
-     # here too, as otherwise it'd make this -Wl,--dynamic-list test
-     # always pass.
-     old_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PYTHON_CFLAGS"
-     old_LIBS="$LIBS"
-     LIBS="$LIBS $PYTHON_LIBS"
-     old_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-     CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $PYTHON_CPPFLAGS"
-     if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :
-  true
-else
-  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include "Python.h"
-int
-main ()
-{
-int err;
-          Py_Initialize ();
-          err = PyRun_SimpleString ("import itertools\n");
-          Py_Finalize ();
-          return err == 0 ? 0 : 1;
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_run "$LINENO"; then :
-  dynamic_list=true
-fi
-rm -f core *.core core.conftest.* gmon.out bb.out conftest$ac_exeext \
-  conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-
-     LIBS="$old_LIBS"
-     CFLAGS="$old_CFLAGS"
-     CPPFLAGS="$old_CPPFLAGS"
-   fi
-   LDFLAGS="$old_LDFLAGS"
-fi
-if $dynamic_list; then
-  found="-Wl,--dynamic-list"
-  RDYNAMIC='-Wl,--dynamic-list=$(srcdir)/proc-service.list'
-else
-  found="-rdynamic"
-  RDYNAMIC="-rdynamic"
-fi
-
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $found" >&5
-$as_echo "$found" >&6; }
-
 
 if test ${build} = ${host} -a ${host} = ${target} ; then
    case ${host_os} in
