--- configure.in
+++ configure.in
@@ -771,14 +771,6 @@
 	if test -z "`echo "$CFLAGS" | grep "\-Wall" 2> /dev/null`" ; then
 		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall"
 	fi
-	if test "$system" = "Linux" -o "$system" = "FreeBSD"; then
-		if test -z "`echo "$CFLAGS" | grep "\-pipe" 2> /dev/null`" ; then
-			CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pipe"
-		fi
-	fi
-	if test -z "`echo "$CFLAGS" | grep "\-g " 2> /dev/null`" ; then
-		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
-	fi
 fi
 
 dnl does this compiler support -Wno-pointer-sign ?