--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5044,9 +5044,6 @@ cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
 _ACEOF
 
 
-if test $ac_size -lt 8; then :
-  as_fn_error $? "size of time_t is $ac_size, which is not large enough to fix the y2k38 bug" "$LINENO" 5
-fi
 
  typename=`echo time_t | sed "s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/_/g"`
  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether time_t is signed" >&5