diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 098badbcd..41f15cb78 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -17848,57 +17848,6 @@ printf "%s\n" "no" >&6; }
 		PKG_CONFIG=""
 	fi
 fi
-for ac_prog in gawk mawk nawk awk
-do
-  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
-{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-printf %s "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if test ${ac_cv_prog_AWK+y}
-then :
-  printf %s "(cached) " >&6
-else $as_nop
-  if test -n "$AWK"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_AWK="$AWK" # Let the user override the test.
-else
-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  case $as_dir in #(((
-    '') as_dir=./ ;;
-    */) ;;
-    *) as_dir=$as_dir/ ;;
-  esac
-    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_AWK="$ac_prog"
-    printf "%s\n" "$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
-AWK=$ac_cv_prog_AWK
-if test -n "$AWK"; then
-  { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $AWK" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "$AWK" >&6; }
-else
-  { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-printf "%s\n" "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
-  test -n "$AWK" && break
-done
-
-
-if test -z "$AWK"; then
-    as_fn_error $? "*** Required awk tool not found!" "$LINENO" 5
-fi
 
 # Check whether --enable-largefile was given.
 if test ${enable_largefile+y}
@@ -18229,7 +18178,7 @@ find_lib()
         host_lib_path="/usr/$base_libdir /usr/local/$base_libdir"
     fi
     for path in $env_lib_path $gcc_bin_path $gcc_lib_path $host_lib_path; do
-        lib=`ls -- $path/$1 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's,.*/,,' | $AWK '{print length() " " $0;}' | sort -n -r | tail -1 | sed 's/^[0-9]\+ //'`
+        lib=`ls -- $path/$1 2>/dev/null | sed -e '/\.so\..*\./d' -e 's,.*/,,' | sort | tail -1`
         if test x$lib != x; then
             echo $lib
             return