Remove patch-related function from configure.

* configure (apply_patches): Unused function removed.
This was used for applying patches when MPI was a tarball,
not expanded in the code tree.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3acbb5b4..28b6988a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2553,24 +2553,6 @@ fi
 $make conftest.clean
 
 #
-# Function to apply patches.
-#
-apply_patches()
-{
-  if ! [ -e patches/series ] ; then
-    echo "no patches"
-    return 0
-  fi
-
-  while read patch patchlevel ; do
-    case patch in
-    '#' ) continue ;;
-    * ) patch ${patchlevel:--p1} < patches/$patch ;;
-    esac
-  done < patches/series
-}
-
-#
 # Some final blurbs into config.h
 #