--- a/bootstrap.conf	Tue Nov 25 12:45:36 2014 -0500
+++ b/bootstrap.conf	Thu Nov 27 18:54:22 2014 -0800
@@ -188,19 +188,3 @@
   (cd libinterp/dldfcn; ./config-module.sh)
 }
 
-bootstrap_epilogue ()
-{
-  ## G77 is obsolete, but it is still the first option in the autoconf
-  ## Fortran macros.  We should avoid it, because mixing old versions of
-  ## g77 with modern gcc and g++ causes trouble.  The following will
-  ## make it harder (but not impossible) for users to make this mistake.
-  ##
-  ## FIXME -- we should really work to fix autoconf so that it prefers
-  ## gfortran over g77 even when searching for a Fortran 77 compiler.
-
-  echo "replacing all occurrences of g77 with gfortran in configure script..."
-
-  sed 's/g77/gfortran/g' configure > configure.t
-  mv configure.t configure
-  chmod 755 configure
-}