diff --git a/auto/endianness.old b/auto/endianness
index 1b552b6..70cb141 100644
--- a/auto/endianness
+++ b/auto/endianness
@@ -26,25 +26,8 @@ int main(void) {
 
 END
 
-ngx_test="$CC $CC_TEST_FLAGS $CC_AUX_FLAGS \
-          -o $NGX_AUTOTEST $NGX_AUTOTEST.c $NGX_LD_OPT $ngx_feature_libs"
 
-eval "$ngx_test >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1"
 
-if [ -x $NGX_AUTOTEST ]; then
-    if $NGX_AUTOTEST >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo " little endian"
         have=NGX_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN . auto/have
-    else
-        echo " big endian"
-    fi
-
     rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
-
-else
-    rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
-
-    echo
-    echo "$0: error: cannot detect system byte ordering"
-    exit 1
-fi