diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2dc3ee1b..330cc720 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -15547,449 +15547,6 @@ test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
 
 
 
-# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
-if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
-
-$as_echo "#define HAVE_PTHREAD 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-        :
-else
-        ax_pthread_ok=no
-
-fi
-ac_ext=c
-ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
-ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
-ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
-ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
-
-
-
-
-
-ac_ext=c
-ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
-ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
-ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
-ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
-
-ax_pthread_ok=no
-
-# We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h
-# requires special compiler flags (e.g. on True64 or Sequent).
-# It gets checked for in the link test anyway.
-
-# First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS,
-# etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using
-# them:
-if test x"$PTHREAD_LIBS$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" != x; then
-        save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
-        save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for pthread_join in LIBS=$PTHREAD_LIBS with CFLAGS=$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for pthread_join in LIBS=$PTHREAD_LIBS with CFLAGS=$PTHREAD_CFLAGS... " >&6; }
-        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-
-/* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
-   Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
-   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C"
-#endif
-char pthread_join ();
-int
-main ()
-{
-return pthread_join ();
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  ax_pthread_ok=yes
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
-$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
-        if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
-                PTHREAD_LIBS=""
-                PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
-        fi
-        LIBS="$save_LIBS"
-        CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
-fi
-
-# We must check for the threads library under a number of different
-# names; the ordering is very important because some systems
-# (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the
-# libraries is broken (non-POSIX).
-
-# Create a list of thread flags to try.  Items starting with a "-" are
-# C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none"
-# which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config"
-# which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library.
-
-ax_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -kthread lthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config"
-
-# The ordering *is* (sometimes) important.  Some notes on the
-# individual items follow:
-
-# pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread)
-# none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and
-#       other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings
-# -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h)
-# -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able)
-# lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread)
-# -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads)
-# -pthreads: Solaris/gcc
-# -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc
-# -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it
-#      doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads too;
-#      also defines -D_REENTRANT)
-#      ... -mt is also the pthreads flag for HP/aCC
-# pthread: Linux, etcetera
-# --thread-safe: KAI C++
-# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
-
-case ${host_os} in
-        solaris*)
-
-        # On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed
-        # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based
-        # tests will erroneously succeed.  (We need to link with -pthreads/-mt/
-        # -lpthread.)  (The stubs are missing pthread_cleanup_push, or rather
-        # a function called by this macro, so we could check for that, but
-        # who knows whether they'll stub that too in a future libc.)  So,
-        # we'll just look for -pthreads and -lpthread first:
-
-        ax_pthread_flags="-pthreads pthread -mt -pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
-        ;;
-
-        darwin*)
-        ax_pthread_flags="-pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
-        ;;
-esac
-
-# Clang doesn't consider unrecognized options an error unless we specify
-# -Werror. We throw in some extra Clang-specific options to ensure that
-# this doesn't happen for GCC, which also accepts -Werror.
-
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if compiler needs -Werror to reject unknown flags" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking if compiler needs -Werror to reject unknown flags... " >&6; }
-save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-ax_pthread_extra_flags="-Werror"
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $ax_pthread_extra_flags -Wunknown-warning-option -Wsizeof-array-argument"
-cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-int foo(void);
-int
-main ()
-{
-foo()
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
-$as_echo "yes" >&6; }
-else
-  ax_pthread_extra_flags=
-                   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
-
-if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
-for flag in $ax_pthread_flags; do
-
-        case $flag in
-                none)
-                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work without any flags" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work without any flags... " >&6; }
-                ;;
-
-                -*)
-                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work with $flag" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work with $flag... " >&6; }
-                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag"
-                ;;
-
-                pthread-config)
-                # Extract the first word of "pthread-config", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy pthread-config; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="$ax_pthread_config" # Let the user override the test.
-else
-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
-    ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="yes"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config" && ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="no"
-fi
-fi
-ax_pthread_config=$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config
-if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_config" >&5
-$as_echo "$ax_pthread_config" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
-                if test x"$ax_pthread_config" = xno; then continue; fi
-                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
-                PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
-                ;;
-
-                *)
-                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for the pthreads library -l$flag" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for the pthreads library -l$flag... " >&6; }
-                PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$flag"
-                ;;
-        esac
-
-        save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-        save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
-        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $ax_pthread_extra_flags"
-
-        # Check for various functions.  We must include pthread.h,
-        # since some functions may be macros.  (On the Sequent, we
-        # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
-        # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
-        # while pthread_create is in libc.  We check for pthread_attr_init
-        # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads.  We check for
-        # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
-        # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
-        # We try pthread_create on general principles.
-        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <pthread.h>
-                        static void routine(void *a) { a = 0; }
-                        static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }
-int
-main ()
-{
-pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr;
-                        pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0);
-                        pthread_join(th, 0);
-                        pthread_attr_init(&attr);
-                        pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0);
-                        pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  ax_pthread_ok=yes
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-
-        LIBS="$save_LIBS"
-        CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
-
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
-$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
-        if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
-                break;
-        fi
-
-        PTHREAD_LIBS=""
-        PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
-done
-fi
-
-# Various other checks:
-if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
-        save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
-        save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
-
-        # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED.
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for joinable pthread attribute" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for joinable pthread attribute... " >&6; }
-        attr_name=unknown
-        for attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do
-            cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <pthread.h>
-int
-main ()
-{
-int attr = $attr; return attr /* ; */
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  attr_name=$attr; break
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-        done
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $attr_name" >&5
-$as_echo "$attr_name" >&6; }
-        if test "$attr_name" != PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE; then
-
-cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
-#define PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE $attr_name
-_ACEOF
-
-        fi
-
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if more special flags are required for pthreads" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... " >&6; }
-        flag=no
-        case ${host_os} in
-            aix* | freebsd* | darwin*) flag="-D_THREAD_SAFE";;
-            osf* | hpux*) flag="-D_REENTRANT";;
-            solaris*)
-            if test "$GCC" = "yes"; then
-                flag="-D_REENTRANT"
-            else
-                # TODO: What about Clang on Solaris?
-                flag="-mt -D_REENTRANT"
-            fi
-            ;;
-        esac
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $flag" >&5
-$as_echo "$flag" >&6; }
-        if test "x$flag" != xno; then
-            PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
-        fi
-
-        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... " >&6; }
-if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-
-                cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <pthread.h>
-int
-main ()
-{
-int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT;
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes
-else
-  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-
-fi
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
-$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&6; }
-        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes"; then :
-
-$as_echo "#define HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-fi
-
-        LIBS="$save_LIBS"
-        CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
-
-        # More AIX lossage: compile with *_r variant
-        if test "x$GCC" != xyes; then
-            case $host_os in
-                aix*)
-                case "x/$CC" in #(
-  x*/c89|x*/c89_128|x*/c99|x*/c99_128|x*/cc|x*/cc128|x*/xlc|x*/xlc_v6|x*/xlc128|x*/xlc128_v6) :
-    #handle absolute path differently from PATH based program lookup
-                   case "x$CC" in #(
-  x/*) :
-    if as_fn_executable_p ${CC}_r; then :
-  PTHREAD_CC="${CC}_r"
-fi ;; #(
-  *) :
-    for ac_prog in ${CC}_r
-do
-  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$PTHREAD_CC" # Let the user override the test.
-else
-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
-    ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$ac_prog"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-fi
-fi
-PTHREAD_CC=$ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC
-if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $PTHREAD_CC" >&5
-$as_echo "$PTHREAD_CC" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
-  test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" && break
-done
-test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
- ;;
-esac ;; #(
-  *) :
-     ;;
-esac
-                ;;
-            esac
-        fi
-fi
-
-test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
-
-
-
-
-
 # Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
 if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5c62e04c..4e16fadb 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -267,8 +267,6 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, connect)
 dnl Checks for library functions.
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([malloc memset socket])
 
-ACX_PTHREAD
-
 AX_PTHREAD([
         AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD, 1,
           [Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.])